Artist: Fra Bartolommeo (1472 - 1517)
Nationality: Italian
Movement: Florentine School
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
As a youth, Bartolommeo studied first with a local painter and then worked in Ghirlandaio’s workshop. In 1500, he became a monk and burned all of his paintings that were not of religious subjects. Bartolommeo became the head of the San Marco monastery workshop in 1504. Then in 1508, he became the leading painter in the Florentine school. He traveled to Venice and Rome in 1514 and spread his influence through his drawings. The San Marco workshop closed not long after his death in 1517.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (22)
Click the artwork titles below to see actual examples of artwork or works of art relevant to works by Fra Bartolommeo.

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Bartolommeo Vivarini, Madonna and Child, 1481
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Head of Child, Angel, & Hand
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Male Nude, 16th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Infant St. John the Baptist
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Madonna and Child with Saints
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Bartolommeo Crivellari, Allegory of Painting, after Pellegrino Tibaldi, from the series Pitture di Tibaldi et di N. Abbati..., 18th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Approach to a Mountain Village, ca. 1495-1508 Baccio della Porta, called Fra Bartolommeo (Italian [Florence],
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Saint Stephen (with the Angel of the Annunciation), part of an altarpiece Martino di Bartolommeo
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Bartolommeo Veneto - Portrait of a Man c. 1510's oil on wood Cleveland Museum of Art Italian
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Saint Anthony Abbot (with Saint John the Baptist), part of an altarpiece Martino di Bartolommeo
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Madonna and Child with Saint Joseph and an Angel Raffaellino del Garbo (Raffaelle di Bartolommeo
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Bartolommeo Bonghi (died 1584), shortly after 1553 Giovanni Battista Moroni (Italian, Lombard, born no later
Museum of Fine Arts -
Attributed to Fra Bartolommeo, Italian, 1472-1517 Study of a Kneeling Virgin late 15th–early 16th century
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Bartolommeo di Giovanni - Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist 1490-95 tempera on panel The Art Institute of Chicago Italian
Museum of Fine Arts -
Bartolommeo Vivarini, Italian (Venetian), active in 1450-1491 Virgin and the Dead Christ with the Ascension
Museum of Fine Arts -
Fra Bartolommeo, Italian, 1472-1517 Landscape with Farm Buildings and Pollarded Mulberry Tree (recto); Studies of
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Saint James the Greater (with the Virgin of the Annunciation), part of an altarpiece Martino
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Saint Julian the Hospitaler (with Saint Nicholas of Bari), part of an altarpiece Martino di
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen, ca. 1490 Neroccio de" Landi (Neroccio
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Saint Lucy and Her Mother at the Shrine of Saint Agatha; Saint Lucy Giving Alms;
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Francesco Guardi Title: View up the Grand Canal Toward the Rialto Date: about 1785

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (2)
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National Museum: Renaissance Drawings from Florence
What was not noted at the time was that the entire collection had been compiled by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), whose monumental work, Lives of the Artists, serves as a basic source of knowledge about Renaissance art and was the foundation st...
Frick Collection: Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art
Among the other artists represented in the exhibition are Northern European masters Matthias Grünewald, Jan van Goyen, Adoph von Menzel, Piet Mondrian, and Paul Klee. Italian artists include Fra Bartolommeo, Rosso Fiorentino, Federico Barocci, Gi...

Further Artwork and Information:

Fra Bartolommeo Online
Fra Bartolommeo. - Olgas Gallery
Fra Bartolommeo (Getty Museum)
Fra Bartolommeo - Biography and Gallery of Art
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Fra Bartolommeo
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Biografía - Fra Bartolommeo. Fra Bartolommeo Baccio della Porta
Wikipedia: Fra Bartolommeo
Fra Bartolommeo (1472 - 1517) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
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