Fra Bartolomeo

Fra Bartolommeo ( born March 28, 1472 Florence, † October 31, 1517 ibid ) (actually Bartolommeo Pagholo del Fattorino, originally called Baccio della Porta, with the nickname, since his monastic life usually Fra Bartolommeo, also just Frate ) was a painter of the Florentine school.

Bartolommeo learned from 1484 to Cosimo Rosselli at, where he met with Mariotto Albertinelli. As Girolamo Savonarola's sermons very upset Florence, he became one of his most loyal supporters and retired in 1500 from the pain of combustion in a Dominican monastery back.

Five to six years he abstained from the practice of art, but then he picked up the brush. From 1509 to 1512 he worked jointly with Albertinelli. In 1508 he visited Venice, Rome 1514.

Bartolommeo's importance lies in the composition directed to the size of the style; powerful color, chaste form of hand signals, serious expression with limited imagination characterize his works. He has exerted great influence on Raphael and Andrea del Sarto. In addition, he was a thorough artist, still exists from which a lot of studies.

The main works of his first period is the fresco of the Last Judgment in the cemetery of Santa Maria Nuova, now in the Museum of St. Hospital in Florence ( 1498-99 ). To 1509 he painted God the Father in the heavenly glory, below Magdalena and Catherine ( gallery to Lucca). In 1511 he created The Betrothal of St. Catherine, which is now exhibited in the Louvre, in 1512 another Betrothal of St. Catherine, on view at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.

During his illness in 1514 was the Madonna in fresco in the Hospital of the Dominicans to Pian di Mugnone. From the years 1515, 1516 and 1517 Bartolommeo's most perfect creations come: the Madonna in San Romano at Lucca and the Annunciation in the Louvre ( 1515), the resurrection of Christ and the Cross in the Gallery Pitti, the holy family in the Corsini Gallery at Rome and the Assumption in the Museum at Naples ( 1516); in 1517 the mural falls: Christ as a gardener before Magdalene in Pian di Mugnone. Of his paintings are now among other things, at Belvedere in Vienna, in the gallery Panshanger in England and in the Berlin Museum.

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Location of the paintings or collections related to the year 1889. These can now be located anywhere else.

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