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Mar052014

Domenico Veneziano: An Early Renaissance Master

DateWednesday, March 5, 2014 at 12:10PM

Domenico Veneziano - St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata - c.1445. Wood. 26.7 x 30.5 cm. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (click photo for larger image)Domenico Veneziano (c. 1405-1461) ranks among the greatest masters of the Early Italian Renaissance. We know very little about him. He’s considered one of the founders of the Florentine school of painting, although it’s believed that he received a good deal of his training in Venice, and that he was exposed to Northern European painting, too. He imbued his works with a stark monumentality and deep emotion. The subject of the painting featured here, St. Francis, was a wealthy man who gave up everything to live humbly—and to devote his life to repairing the Church.

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