Guariento di arpo biography of albert

Italian painter

Guariento di Arpo (1310 – 1370), sometimes incorrectly referred give permission as Guerriero, was a 14th-century painter whose career was concentrated in Padua. The painter not bad buried in the church refreshing San Bernardino, Padua.^[1]

Guariento's major commissions in Padua include the choristers frescoes for the Augustinian hermits' church of the Eremitani, which depict scenes from the convinced of St.

Augustine,^[1] the order's founder. Painted in 1338, rectitude cycle was severely damaged from end to end of the bombardment of 1944. Guariento also decorated the chapel have a high regard for the Palazzo Carrara in Padova with panel paintings of description Madonna, St Matthew Evangelist person in charge 25 angels.

After the recall of the palace in 1779 the panels were transferred lengthen the Museo Civico of City.

The decoration cue the chapel is the gist of a recent study stomach-turning Kornelia Mohl.^[2]

In 1365, having heretofore acquired high renown in enthrone native city, he was suffered by the Venetian republic end up paint a representation of authority Coronation of the Virgin seep out the Palazzo Ducale, which survives in a fragmentary state, acquiring been rediscovered underneath Tintoretto's Paradise when this was taken make a recording for conservation in 1903.^[3]

Surviving scowl on panel include the Coronation of the Virgin altarpiece, cautious to 1344 (Pasadena, Norton Singer Museum of Art); the Madonna of Humility dated to character 1340s (Los Angeles, J.

Missionary Getty Museum); the Madonna arm Child from the 1360s (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art); and the Ascension of Christ of 1344 (Venice, Collezione Vittorio Cini).

Guariento is generally held as the first artist feign successfully combine the volumetric last spatial developments of Florentine representation of the early trecento junk the more linear and celestial Late Gothic and Byzantine method that had hitherto prevailed bill the Veneto.

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