The foremost Venetian painter of the fourteenth century, Paolo Veneziano (ca. 1295–1362) is regarded as the founder of the Venetian school of painting. His workshop produced a broad range of visually rich works and received prestigious commissions from patrons in Venice and beyond, many of them for elaborate altarpieces composed of painted panels within intricately carved gilt-wood frames.
The publication presents Paolo Veneziano’s oeuvre alongside contemporaneous objects in various media to demonstrate how his innovative work engaged with fourteenth-century advances in manuscript illumination, ivory carving, textile production, and metalwork. At the heart of the discussion are the Frick’s Coronation of the Virgin (1358) and the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Annunciation panels. The volume accompanies an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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