Barone Berlinghieri

Barone Berlinghieri also Barone di Berlinghiero as Lucca ( detectable from 1228 to 1282 in Lucca) was a Franciscan and Italian painters.

Barone Berlinghieri was the son of Berlinghiero Berlinghieri, of which he was also trained. Even his brothers Bonaventure and Marco are occupied as a painter. The first mention of it is shared with Berlinghiero and Bonaventure in a list of the citizens of Lucca from the year 1228. It is believed that he was the elder of the three brothers.

According to the sources, he painted a picture against 1243 for the Archbishop of Lucca and delivered in 1256 a crucifix for the parish church of Casabasciana at Lucca. 1282 he began working for the church of San Francesco a crucifix to paint a Madonna and a St. Andrew. Whether he still completed this, is unknown.

Of his works mentioned in the sources, none has received, so that it was the science of art hitherto impossible to assign him still preserved plants.