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Fra Bartolommeo (1472-1517)  

Aliases: Baccio del Fattorino; Baccio della Porta; Baccio di Paolo; Baccio di Paolo del Fattorino; Bartolomeo del Fattorino; Bartolomeo della Porta; Bartolomeo di Paolo; Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino; Bartolomeo di S. Marco; "Fra" Bartolommeo; Fra Bartolommeo (1472 Maler)
Professions: Painter

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Biography

(b Florence, 28 March 1472; d Florence, 31 Oct 1517). 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 Vinci’s painterly and compositional procedures. Later he created a synthesis between Leonardo’s tonal painting and Venetian luminosity of colour. Equally important were his inventions for depicting divinity as a ... (view more)

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