Bartolomeo Vivarini
Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo Vivarini (c. 1432 – c. 1499) was an Italian Renaissance painter, known to have worked from 1450 to 1499.
Biography
Bartolomeo's brother Antonio Vivarini, and his nephew (also possibly his pupil) Alvise Vivarini, were also painters.
He learned oil painting from Antonello da Messina, and is said to have produced, in 1473, the first oil picture done in Venice. Housed in the basilica of San Zanipolo, it is a large altar-piece in nine divisions, representing Augustine and other saints.[1]
Most of his works, however, are in tempera. His outline is always hard, and his colour good; the figures have much dignified and devout expression. As "vivarino" means in Italian a goldfinch, he sometimes drew a goldfinch as the signature of his pictures.[1] The Getty Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Louvre, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), the National Gallery, London, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan), Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Pinacoteca Provinciale di Bari, the Rijksmuseum and the Uffizi are among the public collections holding works by Bartolomeo Vivarini.
Gallery
Christ Enthroned by Bartolomeo Vivarini, 1450
Madonna in trono, painting by Bartolomeo Vivarini_-_Vivarini%252C_trittico_di_san_Zanipolo.jpg.webp)
Polyptych of San Zanipolo 1473
Conversano Polyptych, 1475
Notes
- One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rossetti, William Michael (1911). "Vivarini s.v. Bartolommeo Vivarini". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 152.
External links
- Italian Paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection, a collection catalog containing information about Vivarini and his works (see index; plate 94).
- Bartolomeo Vivarini at the National Gallery of Art