Italian c1474-c1517 Fra Bartolommeo Location Italian painter and draughtsman. Vasari and later historians agree that Fra Bartolommeo was an essential force in the formation and growth of the High Renaissance. He was the first painter in Florence to understand Leonardo da Vincis painterly and compositional procedures. Later he created a synthesis between Leonardos tonal painting and Venetian luminosity of colour. Equally important were his inventions for depicting divinity as a supernatural force, and his type of sacra conversazione in which the saints are made to witness and react to a biblical event occurring before their eyes, rather than standing in devout contemplation, as was conventional before. His drawings, too, are exceptional both for their abundance and for their level of inventiveness. Many artists came under his influence: Albertinelli, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Titian, Correggio, Beccafumi, Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino.  Related Paintings of Fra Bartolommeo :. | Vision of St.Bernard | The Mystic Marriage of st Catherine of Siena,with Eight Saints (mk05) | Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola | Europa and the Bull | Detail of The Virgin Adoring the Child with Saint Joseph |
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HEINTZ, Joseph the Younger
Swiss/German painter (b. ca. 1600, Augsburg, d. ca. 1678, Venezia)
Benjamin Cam Norton
British, 1835-1900
Jan Portielje
1826-1895