Zannino di Pietro da Venezia

This Venetian painter signed contracts in broad daylight, then vanished—leaving no letters, only panels glowing with gold-backed saints. In *Maria Maddalena* he paints her hair loose, robe half-off, catching light like a lamp just touched. Start with the gilt halo, then look at her bare feet on the marble floor—no throne, no crowd, just one woman lit like a private revelation.