page_title: Paolo Veneziano
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Paolo Veneziano / Life
caption_attribution_description: central panel of a Triptych
context_page_description: Paolo Veneziano, also Veneziano Paolo or Paolo da Venezia was a medieval painter from Venice. He has been called 'the most important Venetian painter of the 14th
  century'. Many signed and dated works of this artist are known. He was regarded as the official painter of the Venetian Republic.
context_section_description: He was born to a family of artists.  He operated a large workshop in which he worked together with his sons Marco, Luca, and Giovanni. He was the official painter of Andrea Dandolo, for whom he and his sons Luca and Giovanni painted the Pala Feriale or “weekday altarpiece”, of the St Mark's Basilica in Venice.
  Paolo was in the past identified with the artist responsible for the works attributed to the Master of the Washington Coronation.  There is no longer unanimity among art historians regarding this identification.
caption: Virgin Mary and Child, Louvre Museum, 1354.
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