Alvise vivarini biography

Alvise or Luigi Vivarini (1442/1453–1503/1505) was an Italian painter, the leading Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini.
Alvise or Luigi Vivarini was an Italian painter, the leading Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini.
Alvise Vivarini, the son of Antonio and the nephew of Bartolomeo Vivarini, was born sometime between 1442 and 1453, according to documentary evidence.

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Alvise Vivarini

Alvise Vivarini, who came from a Venetian artist family, was born the son of Antonio Vivarini around 1445/46. He presumably received his artistic training either in his father's workshop or under his uncle, Barrolomeo Vivarini. Alvise is first documented in 1457 and 1458, when he is mentioned in his mother's will. In 1476 he was enrolled in the Scuola della Carità in Venice as an independent artist. His first surviving signed work comes from that same year, a polyptych for the Franciscan monastery in Montefiorentino in the Marches, now in the Gallerie Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino. In 1488 he competed with the Bellinis for the prestigious collaboration on the decoration of the Sala del Gran Consiglio in the Doge's Palace. The three canvases commissioned from him in this context were still unfinished upon his death and were lost in a fire in the Doge's Palace in 1577. Towards the end of his life, Alvise Vivarini appears to have been marked by illness; this may also explain why he was in debt when he died sometime between 1503 and 1505. Alvise's works are first u

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Alvise Vivarini

Italian painter

Alvise or Luigi Vivarini (1442/1453–1503/1505) was an Italian painter, the leading Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini. Like Bellini, he was part of a dynasty of painters. His father was Antonio Vivarini and his uncle, with whom he may have trained, was Bartolomeo Vivarini. Another uncle, on his mother's side, was the artist known as Giovanni d'Alemagna, who worked with his brother-in-law Antonio. Alvise may have trained Jacopo de' Barbari.

It has sometimes been supposed that, besides the Luigi who was the latest of this pictorial family, there had also been another Luigi who was the earliest (i.e. Antonio's father), this supposition being founded on the fact that one picture is signed with the name, with the date 1414. There is good ground, however, for considering this date to be a forgery of a later time.^[1]

The works of Vivarini show an advance on those of his predecessors, and some of them are productions of high attainment; one of the best was executed for the Scuola di San Girolamo in Venice, representing the saint

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The Vivarini were a family of Venetian painters. Son of Antonio and nephew of Bartolomeo, Alvise trained in the family workshop. His style is based on the linearity, compositional models and iconography used by other family members, particularly at the outset of his career. Alvise’s style evolved and reveals his knowledge of the work of Giovanni Bellini, Antonello da Messina and Andrea Mantegna, and his early works look to Mantegna’s clearly defined forms and definition of space. Vivarini’s figures became notably well modeled although he continued to use hard, exaggerated outlines, albeit softened by the interaction between the figures.

Following his training in Venice, Vivarini’s first work as an independent painter is a polyptych painted for the convent of Montefiorentino of 1476 (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino). Also from this period is Saint Jerome (National Gallery of Art, Washington), a painting that reflects an evolution in his style as well as the work of Bellini in the treatment of the light and landscape. In the 1480s Vivarini replaced his linear approach w