Domenico Veneziano (dōmāˈnēkō vānātsyäˈnō) [key], c.1400–1461, Italian painter. His origin is unknown, although his name suggests that he came from Venice. His art, with rich coloring and detailed landscape settings, has close affinities with northern painting. In Florence he created his most celebrated work, the St. Lucy Altarpiece (central panel in the Uffizi). It is one of the first works in which the Madonna and Saints are brought into the same spatial volume ( Sacra Conversazione ). Other paintings attributed to him are several Madonnas (Settignano; National Gall., London; National Gall. of Art, Washington, D.C.); an exquisite circular painting of the Adoration of the Magi (Berlin); and some portraits (National Gall. of Art, Washington, D.C.; Gardner Mus., Boston).
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