Bartolomeo di Fruosino
(1366 - 17 Dec 1441) |
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Bartolomeo di Fruosino |
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Florence, |
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Italian |
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1366 |
| Death: |
17 Dec 1441 |
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painter and illuminator |
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Biography
| In 1394 he was among the pupils of Agnolo Gaddi working on the decoration of the chapel of the Sacro Cingolo in Prato Cathedral. In the same year he joined the Compagnia dei Pittori in Florence, and between 1386 and 1408 he appears to have been a member of the Arte dei Medici e Speziali there. In 1411 he was commissioned to paint a Crucifix for S Maria Nuova, Florence, which Levi DAncona (1961) identified with a painted cross in the Accademia, Florence (3147. In the following years, until 1438, Bartolomeos name appears in the account books of S Maria Nuova for unspecified works. In 1421 he signed a Missal illuminated for S Egidio, Florence, which has formed the basis for further attributions. Bartolomeo may also have collaborated with Lorenzo Monaco on the Annunciation triptych and fresco cycle of the Bartolini Salimbeni Chapel in Santa Trinita, on some detached miniatures and on other manuscripts. He probably painted the triptych with SS Lawrence, Ansanus and Margaret, together with the predella panels now in the Vatican (nos 215-17). The works attributed to Bartolomeo di Fruosino confirm his Late Gothic Florentine training and reveal him as one of the most attentive, if not the most sensitive, collaborators of Lorenzo Monaco. |
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