Domenico Veneziano was born about 1410, in Venice, but trained with Gentile da Fabriano in Florence and Rome. After Gentile's death he worked with Pisanello in Rome in the 1430s.
He was painting frescoes in Perugia and Florence in the late 1430s. Most of these are now lost and his principal surviving work is the 'Saint Lucy' altarpiece now in the Uffizi, Florence. His work shows a sensitivity to naturalism, and his use of light and colour influenced Piero della Francesca, whom he taught.
Domenico Veneziano
active 1438; died 1461
Paintings by Domenico Veneziano
This is a fragment of a wall-painting made using the fresco technique (painting directly onto wet plaster). It comes from a ’street tabernacle‘ – an outdoor religious painting – that showed the Virgin and Child surrounded by two saints.It is the head of one of the saints. We can’t identify him fr...
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This is a fragment of a wall-painting made using the fresco technique (painting directly onto wet plaster). It comes from a ’street tabernacle‘ – an outdoor religious painting – that showed the Virgin and Child surrounded by two saints.It is the head of one of the saints. We can’t identify him fr...
Not on display
This is the central part of a painting done in fresco (painting directly on wet plaster) on the outside wall of a house in Florence. It was flanked by two saints, whose heads – the only surviving parts – are also in the National Gallery’s collection.The grand, simple design and colours were ideal...
Not on display