- Bartolomeo Vivarini
Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo Vivarini (c. 1432 – c. 1499) was an Italian painter, known to have worked from 1450 to 1499. His brother Antonio and his nephew (also possibly his pupil) Alvise were also painters. He learned
oil painting fromAntonello da Messina , and is said to have produced, in 1473, the first oil picture done inVenice . Housed in the basilica of San Zanipolo, it is a large altar-piece in nine divisions, representing Augustine and other saints.Most of his works, however, are in
tempera . His outline is always hard, and his colour good; the figures have much dignified and devout expression. As "vivarino" means in Italian a goldfinch, he sometimes drew a goldfinch as the signature of his pictures. TheGetty Museum ,Harvard University Art Museums , theHonolulu Academy of Arts , theLouvre , theMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston , theNational Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), theNational Gallery, London , theNew Orleans Museum of Art , thePhiladelphia Museum of Art , Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan), Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, theRijksmuseum and theUffizi are among the public collections holding works by Bartolomeo Vivarini.References
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