# Marriage of St Monica [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VIVARINI, Antonio]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Tempera on panel, 46 x 31 cm ## Commentary This small panel, together with others which have recently been identified, made up an altar-piece dedicated to St Monica in the Church of Santo Stefano in Venice. The domestic scene is set in the courtyard of a bourgeois household and embodies Antonio Vivarini's timid attempts at rendering spacial perspective. It demonstrates too the extent to which his world, suspended between the new and the old, acknowledged the importance of Renaissance rules. In contrast with the uncertain definition of the architecture in terms of perspective, the details of costume and the physical and spiritual gestures of the characters are carefully recorded. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Coronation of the Virgin]() - [Passion Polyptych \(detail\)]() - [Passion Polyptych \(detail\)]() - [Passion Polyptych]() - [Polyptych of the Body of Christ]() - [Polyptych of the Virgin]() - [Polyptych of the Virgin]() - [Santa Sabina Polyptych]() - [Sts Jerome, Bernardino of Siena, and Louis of Toulouse]() - [Triptych \(detail\)]() - [Triptych \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()