Santa Lucia de' Magnoli Altarpiece

Domenico Veneziano's Santa Lucia de' Magnoli Altarpiece, painted around 1445 for the church of Santa Lucia dei Magnoli in Florence, is a landmark in the development of Italian Renaissance painting. The sacra conversazione places the Virgin and saints in a unified loggia filled with brilliant outdoor light—a revolutionary treatment that profoundly influenced Piero della Francesca, who worked as Domenico's assistant. The palette of pastel pinks, greens, and blues was unprecedented in Florentine art.

Domenico Veneziano pioneered a luminous palette of unprecedented lightness, with the outdoor loggia setting allowing him to explore the effects of natural light on color, anticipating developments in Venetian painting by decades.