Fra Bartolommeo

(1472–1517) Italian Renaissance painter (1472-1517)

Fra Bartolommeo (1472–1517) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Fra Bartolommeo belongs to the chapter ‘The Renaissance’ in this site’s history of art.

Fra Bartolommeo was born in Prato and died in Florence. The teachers included Piero di Cosimo and Cosimo Rosselli. Fra Bartolommeo worked in Florence. Wikidata associates Fra Bartolommeo with Renaissance. The students included Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio.

The best-known works include ‘The Vision of Saint Bernard’, ‘Lamentation’, ‘God the Father with Sts Catherine of Siena and Mary Magdalen’, and ‘The Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist’. The works belong mainly to the genre religious painting. The catalogue has 58 works by Fra Bartolommeo with free images. The dated works span the years 1490–1600. Works by Fra Bartolommeo are held by several collections, among them drawings in the National Gallery of Art, Department of Paintings of the Louvre, Galleria Palatina, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wikidata links 14 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘The Renaissance’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Girolamo Alibrandi, Matthias Grünewald, Juan de Borgoña, Pietro Paolo Agabiti, and Rueland, the younger Frueauf.

• The Renaissance
• Presentation of Christ in the Temple
• Minerva