Catarino Veneziano

Catarino worked in Venice in the second half of the 14th century, when the city's painters still leaned on the gold grounds and stylised faces of Byzantine art, a tradition Venice had absorbed through its long trade with Constantinople. He often painted in partnership with a colleague named Donato, and the two signed works together.

His Coronation of the Virgin, made in 1375 and now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, was once the centre of a larger altarpiece whose side panels are lost. It shows Christ setting a crown on the Virgin's head against a field of tooled gold, the figures modelled with a little more solidity than the flat Byzantine manner usually allowed.

The documents that name him run from 1362 to 1382. His birth and death dates are unknown, as they are for most Venetian painters of his generation.