Alvise vivarini biography templates

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.

The Vivarini were a family of Venetian painters.

Biography.

Alvise or Luigi Vivarini (/–/) was an Italian painter, the leading Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini.

Alvise Vivarini, who came from a Venetian artist family, was born the son of Antonio Vivarini around / He presumably received his artistic training.

Luigi or Alvise Vivarini, born c.

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 attain