Apostle Saint

Antonio Venezianoaround 1385 -

Details

Title: Apostle Saint
Creator Lifespan: documented 1369 - 1388
Creator Nationality: Italian
Creator Gender: Male
Date: around 1385 -
Provenance: Alberto Crespi Collection
Physical Dimensions: w29.3 x h43.6 cm
Painter: Antonio Veneziano
Description: The artistic production of Antonio Veneziano, active in the second half of the fourteenth century, is documented in Florence, Siena, Pisa, Palermo, and finally in Spain. He uses a particular pictorial language, preferring large areas with broad monumental compositions, albeit with complex and lively details. His strong sense of naturalism has led critics to suppose that he was trained in Emilia Romagna and not Venice, which is his presumed birthplace. The panel painting of San Filippo is in a modern frame, but has retained its original width. It was a side panel of a polyptych that was reconstructed by art historians and included in the Virgo Lactans of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Also originally from the polyptych are two panels with Saints Peter and Paul, now in the Loeser Collection in Florence, and one of St. Bartholomew now in the City Art Gallery of Auckland. The chronological placement of the work has been much disputed. The most recent research has placed it within the two years the artist spent in Pisa in the mid-1380s, because of its formal similarities to the Stories of St. Ranieri frescoed in the monumental Campo Santo.
Type: painting
Rights: © Archivio fotografico Museo Diocesano, Milano
Medium: tempera on wood

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