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Dario (di Giovanni) da Treviso [Dario da Pordenone]
( fl 1440; d before 1498). Italian painter. Described in a Paduan document of 1440 as pictor vagabundus (itinerant painter), he is also mentioned as being employed in the workshop of Francesco Squarcione. Still in Padua, he next moved on to work in the shop of the Milanese artist Pietro Maggi. Around 1448 he moved to Treviso, where in 1455 he married Ginevra Ziliolo, daughter of an otherwise unknown painter whose workshop he inherited. He is subsequently recorded in Treviso, Asolo, Bassano, Conegliano and Serravalle, working mainly as a fresco painter. In two of his early works, the Crucifixion (fresco; Treviso, Mus. Civ. Bailo) and another Crucifixion (fresco, 1453; Treviso, S Francesco), the influence of Squarcione and of Dario’s Ferrarese background—this latter already seen in the painter’s earlier St Christopher (panel; Venice, Ca’d’Oro)—acquires softer tones. Similar tendencies are evident in the Madonna of Humility (1459; Asolo, Mus. Civ.), while in the fresco cycle in S Gottardo, Asolo, painted over several years, particular characteristics emerge, as, for example, in the St Blaise, where clear affinities with the school of Paolo Uccello can be seen. In other parts of the decoration Late Gothic elements are evident. The Tuscan tendencies disappear in such later works as the dated Virgin and Child (1492; Asolo Cathedral), where the linear, decorative manner of his early education can be discerned, fixed within a figurative repertory destined to be of great influence in the Treviso area as far as Friuli and recognizable in such works as the Virgin and Child with Saints (fresco; Schio, S Francesco).
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