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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).
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.