Six apostles

Antonio Veneziano was a Florentine painter who worked extensively in Siena and Pisa during the second half of the fourteenth century, known for his monumental fresco cycles and panel paintings. This panel of Six Apostles, now in the Lindenau Museum in Altenburg, likely formed part of a larger altarpiece ensemble. Antonio's career exemplifies the mobility of Trecento painters who moved between Tuscan cities, absorbing and transmitting stylistic influences across regional boundaries.

Tempera on gold-ground panel, with the six apostle figures arranged in a compact grouping that demonstrates Antonio Veneziano's confident figure style. Each apostle is individually characterized through gesture and physiognomy, rendered with firm modeling and the warm Tuscan palette typical of late fourteenth-century Florentine-Sienese painting.