Bartolomeo di Tommaso
(1408-11 - before 6 Feb 1454) |
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Bartolomeo di Tommaso |
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Foligno, |
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Italian |
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1408-11 |
| Death: |
before 6 Feb 1454 |
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Biography
| He is first documented in 1425 in Ancona, where he may have trained with Olivuccio di Ceccarello. Possible early works include a Virgin and Child (Milan, Brera) and two scenes from the Life of St Francis (Venice, Fond. Cini; Baltimore, MD, Walters A.G.). His first secure work is the panel of the Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and the Blessed Pietro Crisci from a triptych commissioned for S Salvatore, Foligno, in 1432, and this shows his familiarity with the work of Sassetta and possibly Masaccio. From 1434 Bartolomeo worked at Fano, where he executed frescoes on the facade of S Guiliano. He received an important commission in 1439, to execute the high altarpiece for S Francesco, Cesena. From 1441 to 1451 he lived in Foligno and executed works including frescoes of St Barbara, the Madonna of Loreto and St Anthony Preaching, the Rospigliosi Triptych and the fresco of the Last Judgement. He was in Rome c. 1451-2 in the service of Pope Nicholas V, but no work survives. In 1452 he donated a triptych (possibly Venice, Fond. Cini) to S Maria Maddalena, Foligno. Bartolomeos imaginative and expressionistic treatment of subject-matter and innovative compositions influenced artists in the Marches, particularly Nicola di Maestro Antonio and Andrea Delitio. |
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