Biography
Little is known about this painter. He is supposed to have been a pupil of Antonio of Murano, though conjectures by critics vary about him and his work.
The probability is that he did little alone, but was one of the assistants in the Vivarini workshop.
His use of tempera is similar to the school of Murano, flat, light, and with little or no shade. His type of head is regular and well-shaped, fingers and neck long, waist very slender.
Read more about this topic: Quirizio Di Giovanni Da Murano
Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)
“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Had Dr. Johnson written his own life, in conformity with the opinion which he has given, that every man’s life may be best written by himself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clearness of narration and elegance of language in which he has embalmed so many eminent persons, the world would probably have had the most perfect example of biography that was ever exhibited.”
—James Boswell (1740–95)