Bartolommeo, Fra

Bartolommeo, Fra

▪ Italian painter
Bartolommeo also spelled  Bartolomeo , also called  Bartolomeo della Porta  or  Baccio della Porta 
born March 28, 1472, Florence [Italy]
died Oct. 31, 1517, Florence
 painter who was a prominent exponent in early 16th-century Florence of the High Renaissance style.

      He served as an apprentice in the workshop of Cosimo Rosselli and then formed a workshop with the painter Mariotto Albertinelli (Albertinelli, Mariotto). His early works, such as the Annunciation (1497), were influenced by the balanced compositions of the Umbrian painter Perugino and by the sfumato (smoky effect of light and shade) of Leonardo da Vinci. Influenced by the preaching of the Florentine Dominican religious reformer Girolamo Savonarola (Savonarola, Girolamo), Bartolommeo joined the Dominican order in 1500 and gave up painting. He began painting again in 1504, producing devotional paintings mostly at the service of his order. His Vision of St. Bernard (completed 1507) shows him achieving the transition from the subtle grace of late Quattrocento painting to the monumentality of the High Renaissance style.

 In 1508 Fra Bartolommeo visited Venice, where he assimilated the Venetian painters' use of richer colour harmonies. Back in Florence soon afterward, he painted a number of calm and simple religious pictures in which monumental figures are grouped in balanced compositions and portrayed with a dense and somewhat shadowy atmospheric treatment. Among such works are his God the Father with SS. Catherine of Siena and Mary Magdalene (1509) and the Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (1512).

      Bartolommeo visited Rome in 1514, where he saw Raphael's mature work and Michelangelo's frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. In response Bartolommeo's art took on a greater power of dramatic expression, as in the Madonna della Misericordia (1515) and the Pietà (c. 1515). Despite Bartolommeo's assimilation of the progressive currents of his time, his art is restrained, conservative, and somewhat severe, and he painted religious subjects almost exclusively. His production of drawings and preparatory sketches shows a delicate sensitivity and technical superiority. His landscapes are among the most notable of his time.

Additional Reading
Leader Scott, Fra Bartolommeo (1881); Chris Fischer, Fra Bartolommeo: Master Draughtsman of the High Renaissance (1990).

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