Alvise Vivarini

Vivarini, Luigi

Venetian, 1442/1453 - 1503/1505

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Shown from the chest up, a pale-skinned, clean-shaven man with brown hair and wearing brown looks up and slightly to our right in this vertical portrait painting. The man’s brown eyes gaze up under low, dark brows. He has a square face with a rounded nose, a wide chin, and his thin lips are closed. Wavy brown hair falls almost to his shoulders from under an earth-brown, brimless cap. Vertical pleats fall from the high neck of his coffee-brown garment, which is lined with a narrow band of white at the neck. The man is lit brightly from our left, but his clothing and hair nearly blend into the dark brown background.
Alvise Vivarini, Portrait of a Man, c. 1495, oil on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.355

Portrait of a Man

Alvise Vivarini · c. 1495 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1939.1.355

Alvise Vivarini, Saint Jerome Reading, c. 1476, tempera on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.311

Saint Jerome Reading

Alvise Vivarini · c. 1476 · tempera on panel ·  Accession ID  1939.1.311

Bibliography

1961

  • Pallucchini, Rodolfo. I Vivarini (Antonio, Bartolomeo, Alvise). Venice, 1961.

1982

  • Steer, John. Alvise Vivarini: His Art and Influence. Cambridge, 1982.

2003

  • Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 675.