Antonio Vivarini

Who was Antonio Vivarini?

Antonio Vivarini was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance-late Gothic period, who worked mostly in the Republic of Venice. He is probably the earliest of a family of painters including sibling his younger brother Bartolomeo and Antonio's son Alvise Vivarini.

He initially trained with Andrea da Murano, and his works show the influence of Gentile da Fabriano. The earliest known date of a picture of his, an altar-piece in the Accademia is 1440; the latest, in the Lateran museum, 1464, but he appears to have been alive in 1470.He worked in company his brother in law, Giovanni d'Alemagna