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 Fra Bartolommeo

(1472 - 1517)

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            Bartolommeo di Pagola del Fartorino, also known as Baccio della Porta because his family home was at the Porta di San Pier Gartolino, was born in 1472 in Soffignano near Florence. At the age of 12 he was sent to the workshop of Cosimo Rosselli, where he studied art. He also took lessons from Ghirlandaio. In 1490 he founded his own workshop, together with Mariotto Albertinelli. Bartolommeo became a follower of the Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola and entered the Dominican order in the late nineties. He was influenced by the works of Leonardo da Vinci and Flemish masters, studied works of Perugino and Bellini. The combined effect of these influences resulted after 1512 in works which stand out in the art of the Florentine High Renaissance. Among his best works is The Entombment (1515).
 
 

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Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498)  Italian religious and political reformer, born of a noble family in Ferrara. In 1474 he entered the Dominican order at Bologna. He opposed himself to papal authority, calling for purity of the Church, spirituality and asceticism. After the death of Lorenzo de'Medici, the Magnificent, a republic was established in Florence, Savonarola became its guiding spirit. He planned the republic to be a Christian commonwealth, of which God was the sole sovereign, and his Gospel the law. After the Medicis' return to power Savonarola was brought to trial. He was declared guilty and executed in 1498. His works are mainly sermons, theological treatises, some poems.
See: Fra Bartolommeo. Girolamo Savanarola.

Bibliography:
Painting of Europe. XIII-XX centuries. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1999.
Fra Bartolommeo by Leader Scott. IndyPublish.com, 2003.
Fra Bartolommeo: Master draughtsman of the high renaissance : a selection from the Rotterdam albums and landscape drawings from various collections by Chris Fischer. University of Washington Press, 1990.
Lives of the Artists (2 Volume Set) by Giorgio Vasari. Peter Smith Publisher Inc , 1993.


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