Paolo Veneziano : art & devotion in 14th-century Venice : [J. Paul Getty Museum from July 13 to October 3, 2021

The foremost Venetian painter of the fourteenth century, Paolo Veneziano is regarded as the founder of the Venetian school of painting. Active from 1333 to 1358, Veneziano practiced his art within a culture enriched by Venice’s maritime economy, with materials and techniques coming to his native city from Byzantium, Africa, Persia, and Asia. His workshop received prestigious commissions from Venice and beyond, many of them for elaborate altarpieces composed of painted panels within intricately carved gilt-wood frames. This volume, published by the Frick Collection in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, reunites, for the first time, the dispersed components of two of the rare surviving altarpieces and presents them alongside contemporaneous objects in various media. In doing so, it demonstrates how Veneziano’s innovative and visually rich work engaged with fourteenth-century advances in manuscript illumination, ivory carving, textile production, and metalwork. Cover Contents Forewords Introduction Venice in the fourteenth century Life and career Style and chronology Paolo’s world: The Forzetta document Practice across media New approaches to Paolo Veneziano Paolo Veneziano’s triptychs for personal devotion The triptych and its fortunes Origins and prototypes Pictorial devices and ritual Patronage: A Franciscan connection? Function and personal devotion Paolo Veneziano and his aesthetic context. The intersection of art in fourteenth-century Venice Altarpiece frames Devotional ivories Metalwork Textiles Manuscripts Paolo Veneziano under the microscope. New technical information regarding the Worcester Triptych Physical considerations Descriptions of the existing fragments Proposed original frames Dimensions of the panels Paolo’s materials and techniques Support and panel preparation Gold application and punchwork Painted layers Final thoughts Catalogue The San Severino polyptych The Worcester triptych Other works by Paolo Veneziano Contextual works Selected bibliography Index "The foremost Venetian painter of the fourteenth century, Paolo Veneziano (ca. 1295-ca. 1362) is regarded as the founder of the Venetian school of painting. This publication, and the exhibition it accompanies, reunites, for the first time, the dispersed components of two of his rare surviving altarpieces and presents them alongside contemporaneous objects in various media to demonstrate how the innovative and visually rich work of Paolo Veneziano engaged with fourteenth-century advances in manuscript illumination, ivory carving, textile production, and metalwork"-- Provided by publisher "The foremost Venetian painter of the fourteenth century, Paolo Veneziano (ca. 1295-ca. 1362) is regarded as the founder of the Venetian school of painting. This publication, and the exhibition it accompanies, reunites, for the first time, the dispersed components of two of his rare surviving altarpieces and presents them alongside contemporaneous objects in various media to demonstrate how the innovative and visually rich work of Paolo Veneziano engaged with fourteenth-century advances in manuscript illumination, ivory carving, textile production, and metalwork"--éd