Fra Bartolommeo Italian c1474-c1517
Fra Bartolommeo Location
Italian painter and draughtsman. Vasari and later historians agree that Fra Bartolommeo was an essential force in the formation and growth of the High Renaissance. He was the first painter in Florence to understand Leonardo da Vincis painterly and compositional procedures. Later he created a synthesis between Leonardos tonal painting and Venetian luminosity of colour. Equally important were his inventions for depicting divinity as a supernatural force, and his type of sacra conversazione in which the saints are made to witness and react to a biblical event occurring before their eyes, rather than standing in devout contemplation, as was conventional before. His drawings, too, are exceptional both for their abundance and for their level of inventiveness. Many artists came under his influence: Albertinelli, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Titian, Correggio, Beccafumi, Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino.
Fra Bartolommeo Resurrected Christ with Saints 1516
Palazzo Pitti, Florence
The Annunciation with Saints Margaret Mary Magdalen Paul John the Baptist Jerome and Francis (mk05) Wood 38 x 30 1/4(96 x 77 cm)Collections of Francois Iand Louis XIV;entered the Louvre in 1515-1530 Painting ID:: 20153
Fra Bartolommeo The Annunciation with Saints Margaret Mary Magdalen Paul John the Baptist Jerome and Francis (mk05) Wood 38 x 30 1/4(96 x 77 cm)Collections of Francois Iand Louis XIV;entered the Louvre in 1515-1530
The Mystic Marriage of st Catherine of Siena,with Eight Saints (mk05) 1511
Wood,101 1/4 x 90\'\'(257 x 228 cm)From the Collegiate Church in Autun;entered the Louvre in 1800 Inv Painting ID:: 20157
Fra Bartolommeo The Mystic Marriage of st Catherine of Siena,with Eight Saints (mk05) 1511
Wood,101 1/4 x 90\'\'(257 x 228 cm)From the Collegiate Church in Autun;entered the Louvre in 1800 Inv
Annunciation (mk08) c.1500
Oil tempera on wood
20x10cm
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi Painting ID:: 21295
Italian c1474-c1517
Fra Bartolommeo Location
Italian painter and draughtsman. Vasari and later historians agree that Fra Bartolommeo was an essential force in the formation and growth of the High Renaissance. He was the first painter in Florence to understand Leonardo da Vincis painterly and compositional procedures. Later he created a synthesis between Leonardos tonal painting and Venetian luminosity of colour. Equally important were his inventions for depicting divinity as a supernatural force, and his type of sacra conversazione in which the saints are made to witness and react to a biblical event occurring before their eyes, rather than standing in devout contemplation, as was conventional before. His drawings, too, are exceptional both for their abundance and for their level of inventiveness. Many artists came under his influence: Albertinelli, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Titian, Correggio, Beccafumi, Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino.