Bartolomeo Vivarini

Bartolomeo Vivarini Bartolomeo Vivarini or also called Bartolommeo da Murano (* um 1432 in Murano; ? † around 1499 up there ()) was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento, 15th Century.

Life

Vivarini has worked proven in the years 1450-1499. His brother Antonio Vivarini Alvise Vivarini and his son were also painters. Alvise may even have been his students. How many Venetian painters of his time, he was da Messina influenced by the then-new technique of oil painting by Antonello, as this has possibly stopped from 1474 to 1476 in Venice. Vivarini supposed to have in 1473 the first oil paintings painted in Venice, the nine -part altar in the Basilica of San Zanipolo. In this altarpiece is painted Augustine of Hippo along with other saints. Bartolomeo's last dated work is a Tritychon from the year 1491st Alvise Vivarini led the family workshop of Bartolomeo on to death.

Most of the works of Bartolomeo Vivarini were painted in tempera. His works can be admired today in churches of Venice and Italy. Other works are shown in museums around the globe, The National Gallery in Berlin has lost one of the works of the painter in 1945 when the fire flak bunker in Berlin -Friedrichshain.

Pictures in Italian churches

• Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice: St. Mark, altarpiece in the Chapel Corner.
• Santa Maria Formosa, Venice: Triptych of Mercy
• Santo Stefano (Venice): St. Lawrence 1460 / 1470th
• Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, Triptych of St. Augustine between St. Dominic and St. Lorenz, 1473rd
• Church of Saint Eufemia: Giudecca, Venice, San Rocco, 1480th
• Modugno ( Apulia): Church of Maria Santissima Annunziata, L' Annunciation ( 1472 ), formerly (until 2002) in the Pinacoteca Provinciale di Bari.
• Polignano a Mare, Bari Province, Apulia: Church of Santa Maria Assunta, Madonna and Child with Saints.
• Zumpano, Calabria: San Giorgio, Triptych