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Fra Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo OP ( UK: / ˌbɑːrtɒləˈmeɪoʊ /, US: /- toʊl -/, Italian: [bartolo (m)ˈmɛːo]; 28 March 1472 – 31 October 1517), also known as Bartolommeo di Pagholo, [1] Bartolommeo di San Marco, [2] Paolo di Jacopo del Fattorino, and his original nickname Baccio della Porta, [2] was an Italian Renaissance painter of ...
Fra Bartolommeo (born March 28, 1472, Florence [Italy]—died Oct. 31, 1517, Florence) was a painter who was a prominent exponent in early 16th-century Florence of the High Renaissance style. Bartolommeo served as an apprentice in the workshop of Cosimo Rosselli and then formed a workshop with the painter Mariotto Albertinelli.
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Biography. Fra Bartolommeo was a spiritual man as well as a gifted artist. One the most innovative and accomplished painters of the Italian Renaissance, he created dazzling, instantly recognizable narratives. His art-works are brimming with spiritualism and heartfelt piety. They are truly masterpieces created with both craft and compassion.
Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino) (Italian, 1473–1517). A Small Town on the Crest of a Slope, ca. 1508. Pen and brown ink, 11 x 8 9/16 in. (27.9 x 21.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1957 (57.165) Fra Bartolomeo's celebrated landscape studies were drawn directly from nature, and rank among the ...
Biography. Florentine painter. After training with Cosimo Rosselli, he was deeply influenced by the preaching of Savonarola and entered the Dominican Order in 1500, giving up painting until 1504. His original name was Baccio della Porta, but he changed his name to Fra Bartolomeo when he became a Dominican friar. From then until 1508 he ...
BARTOLOMMEO DI PAGHOLO, FRA (1472-1517), the Italian historical and portrait painter, known also as BACCI0 (short for Bartolommeo) DELLA PORTA (because he lived near the Porta Romana), was born at Soffignano, near Florence, in 1475, and died at Florence in 1517. He received the first elements of his artistic education from Cosimo Rosselli [1439-1507]; and after leaving him, devoted himself to ...
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Biography of Fra Bartolommeo Ranked among the most important Old Masters of the Florentine Renaissance during the early years of the cinquecento , the Dominican Fra Bartolommeo - formerly known as Baccio della Porta - was a pupil of Cosimo Rosselli, before becoming associated with the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-94).
