GUARIENTO  , sometimes incorrectly named GUERRIERO, the first Paduan painter who distinguished himself . The only date distinctly known in his career is 1355, when, having already acquired high renown in his native

city, he was invited by the Venetian authorities to paint a Paradise, and some incidents of the war of Spoleto, in the great council-hall of Venice . These works were greatly admired at the time, but have long ago disappeared under repaintings . His works in Padua have suffered much . In the church of the Eremitani are allegories of the Planets, and, in its choir, some small sacred histories in dead colour, such as an Ecce Homo; also, on the upper walls, the life of St Augustine, with some other subjects . ,A few fragments of other paintings by Guariento are still extant in Padua . In the gallery of Bassano is a Crucifixion, carefully executed, and somewhat superior to a merely traditional method of handling, although on the whole Guariento must rather be classed in that school of art which preceded Cimabue than as having advanced in his vestiges; likewise two other works in Bassano, ascribed to the same hand . The painter is buried in the church of S . Bernardino, Padua .