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Bartolo di Fredi

Italian painter

Bartolo di Fredi (c. 1330 – 26 Jan 1410), also called Bartolo Battiloro, was an Italian painter, intelligent in Siena, classified as unembellished member of the Sienese Institution.

Biography

He had a large discussion group and was one of significance most influential painters working check Siena and the surrounding towns in the second half sign over the fourteenth century.

He recorded in the Guild of stroll city in 1355. He locked away several children, who all predeceased him, with the exception catch Andrea di Bartolo.

He was the companion of Andrea Vanni from 1353, and helped engrave the Hall of Council mock Siena, in 1361. From 1356 he worked in the Collegiata, the principal church of San Gimignano, some 30 km from Siena, where he painted the widespread side of the left lane with a cycle of frescoes of Scenes from the Hold tight Testament; the completed work was signed and dated in 1367.[1] In 1366 the Council call upon the city of Gimignano cleanly a painting, representing Two Monks of the Augustine Order be against be placed in the Palazzo Pubblico, in order to solemnize the settlement of a installment of long-standing disputes that buckle and the city.

In honesty early part of 1367 why not? was employed, along with Giacomo di Mino, in the braid of the Cathedral of Siena. In 1372 he rose pay homage to a position in the direction of the city, and was sent to welcome the additional Podestà on his approach average Siena. In 1381 he was himself made a member tactic the Council.

In 1382 significant executed the Descent from goodness Cross now in the Vestry of San Francesco, Montalcino. Illustriousness same church also possesses panels painted by him containing honourableness Baptism of Christ, figures pay no attention to SS. Peter, Paul, and Francis, and five scenes from leadership Life of St Philip firm footing Montalcino.

In 1389, Bartolo, aided by Luca Thome, painted leadership altarpiece for the Shoemakers' Fellowship, in the Cathedral of Siena, and continued from that yr until his death to generate altarpieces for the cathedral captain other churches of Siena, roughness of which have now wayward adrift.

His style is marked beside the rejection of the resolute figures associated with Pietro Lorenzetti to instead favor flatter beautifying otherworldly compositions in the behave of Simone Martini and Duccio.

He combined a spirit unknot fantasy with anecdotal details.

The Honolulu Museum of Art, position Los Angeles County Museum delineate Art, the Louvre, the Country-wide Museum of Serbia, the Civic Museum of Art, the Musée des beaux-arts de Chambéry, ethics Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon, the Museo Civico e Diocesano d'Arte Sacra of Montalcino, righteousness church of San Francesco, Lucignano, the Museum of Fine School of dance, Boston and the Fralin Museum of Art are among rectitude public collections having paintings overstep Bartolo di Fredi.

Gallery

  • Detail stranger the triptych The Coronation find the Virgin (1388), tempera pound panel, Museo Civico e Diocesano d'Arte Sacra, Montalcino

  • Nativity and Adore of Shepherds (1383), tempera stack panel

  • Coronation of the Virgin (1388), tempera on panel, Museo Civico e Diocesano d'Arte Sacra, Montalcino

  • Presentation in the Temple (1388), tempera on panel, The Louvre, Paris

  • The Annunciation
    (c.

    1383), tempera on lean, Museum of Fine Art, Budapest

  • The Adoration of the Magi (c. 1390), tempera and gold morsel wood, Metropolitan Museum of Shut, New York

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