Bartolomeo Bimbi

Bartolomeo Bimbi (* 1648 in Settignano , Florence ; † 1729 there ) was a Florentine painter who specialized in still lifes .

Career

Citrus fruits (1715)
Museo della natura morta, Poggio a Caiano

Bartolomeo Bimbi studied in Rome , and one of his teachers was Lorenzo Lippi . In his early years he also painted historical pictures, but later devoted himself entirely to painting still lifes, especially pictures of flowers and fruits. So he created “around 1700 for northern Italian country estates paintings with numerous varieties of tree fruits (...), e. B. a representation with 34 types of lemon alone. ”He painted and documented his pictures with scientific accuracy. Bimbi mainly worked for the Medici , his main client was Cosimo III. who had a soft spot for botany .

From May 11 to July 20, 2008 there was a solo exhibition at the Villa Medicea in Poggio a Caiano (title: Stravaganti e bizzarri. Ortaggi e frutti dipinti da Bartolomeo Bimbi per i Medici ).

literature

Hans Vollmer : Bimbi, Bartolomeo . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 35 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Silvia Meloni Trkulja: BIMBI, Bartolomeo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 10: Biagio-Boccaccio. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1968.

Web links

Commons : Bartolomeo Bimbi - collection of images, videos and audio files

Bartolomeo Bimbi at an exhibition on botanical painting in Florence (National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002; English)
Review of the Bimbi solo exhibition (May 15, 2008; Italian)

Individual evidence

↑ Bernd Herrmann: Pictures of the Gemäldegalerie and the Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin. In: ders. / Christine Dahlke (Hrsg.): Schauplätze der Umweltgeschichte. Workshop report. Univ.-Verlag, Göttingen 2008. pp. 7-18, (here p. 13 books.google.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Bimbi, Bartolomeo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Florentine painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1648
PLACE OF BIRTH	Settignano , Florence
DATE OF DEATH	1729
Place of death	Settignano , Florence

[1] Bernd Herrmann: Pictures of the Gemäldegalerie and the Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin. In: ders. / Christine Dahlke (Hrsg.): Schauplätze der Umweltgeschichte. Workshop report. Univ.-Verlag, Göttingen 2008. pp. 7-18, (here p. 13 books.google.de ).