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Fra Bartolomeo

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Fra Bartolomeo

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Also known as Baccio della Porto, Fra Bartolommeo

Italian Renaissance painter (1472-1517)

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Works
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  • Fra Bartolomeo 1517

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Italy

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Quotes

  • To live like a lion for a day is far better than to live for a hundred years like a jackal.
  • Who are my people? All of them – Yes those that ring the temple bells and those that pray in the mosque – they are my people and this land is theirs and mine
  • People who have sinned against such a holy place are sure to suffer the consequences of their misdeeds at no distant date in this Kali age in accordance with the verse: Hasadbhih kriyate karma rudadbhir-anubhuyate (People do [evil] deeds smilingly but suffer the consequences crying).
  • To begin the so much desired work of the conversion of the Hindoos and to seize on the Brahmins, ... and make them examples to the other inferior castes, in becoming Mussulmans, by suffering circumcision and being compelled to eat beef: accordingly many Brahmins were seized in or about the month of July 1788...
  • I am sending two of my followers with Mir Hussain Ali. With their assistance, you should capture and kill all Hindus. Those below 20 may be kept in prison and 5,000 from the rest should be killed by hanging from the tree-tops. These are my orders.
  • With the grace of Prophet Muhammed and Allah, almost all Hindus in Calicut are converted to Islam. Only a few are still not converted on the borders of Cochin State. I am determined to convert them also very soon. I consider this as Jehad to achieve that object.

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Key facts

Born
Baccio della Porta , 28 March 1472, Savignano di Prato , Tuscany
Died
31 October 1517 (aged 45), Florence

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Works in European collections

31 objects attributed to Fra Bartolomeo, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Apparition of the Virgin to St Bernard (1504–1507), Uffizi Fra Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo ( UK: /ˌbɑːrtɒləˈmeɪoʊ/, US: /-toʊl-/, Italian: [bartolo(m)ˈmɛːo]; 28 March 1472 – 31 October 1517), also known as Bartolommeo di Pagholo, Bartolommeo di San Marco, Bartolomeo di Paolo di Jacopo del Fattorino, and his original nickname Baccio della Porta, was an Italian Renaissance painter of religious subjects. He spent all his career in Florence until his mid-forties, when he travelled to work in various cities, as far south as Rome. He trained with Cosimo Rosselli and in the 1490s fell under the influence of Savonarola, which led him to become a Dominican friar in 1500, renouncing painting for several years. Typically his paintings are of static groups of figures in subjects such as the Virgin and Child with Saints.

He was instructed to resume painting for the benefit of his order in 1504, and then developed an idealized High Renaissance style, seen in his Vision of St Bernard of that year, now in poor condition but whose "figures and drapery move with a seraphic grace that must have struck the young Raphael with the force of revelation". He remained friends with Raphael, and each influenced the other.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fra Bartolomeo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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