Bartolomeo Caporali

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Madonna and Child and Angels , Galleria nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia

Bartolomeo Caporali (* around 1420 in Perugia ; † 1503/1505 there) was an Italian painter and miniaturist.

biography

He was the son of Segnolo di Giovanni, a military man nicknamed the Corporal, born in Massa Lombarda . There is some information about his artistic training and his name appears on the members 'list of the painters' guild in 1442.

His family was very active in the arts. His brother Giapeco was an illuminator and his sons Giovan Battista , Giovanni Paolo and their nephew Giulio were artists. However, it is certain that he visited the Renaissance painting circles of Perugia , created in 1438 after Domenico Veneziano's stay . From this fertile school the first steps were taken by painters like Perugino . The school's breeding ground was the development of new theories about perspective, building on the old Gothic traditions.

Annunciation , Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia

The style of Caporali was influenced in the first phase by Benedetto Bonfigli and in its last creative phase by Fiorenzo di Lorenzo and Pinturicchio .

Caporali's first works cannot be assigned with certainty. Both the Madonna and Child in the Uffizi Gallery and the Adoration of the Magi with the Crucifix in the National Gallery of London are ascribed to him or Benedetto Bonfigli .

The crucifix of the parish church of Isola Maggiore in Lake Trasimeno , the Madonna of the Berlin Picture Gallery, the Madonna among the saints and angels making music in Fanciullata, all made between 1450 and 1459, are certainly his works.

During the works of the seventies, such as the angels with the attributes of the Passion of the Perugia Gallery (1477), the Madonna of Mercy with Saints Francis and Bernard and four Evangelists (1480), in the chapel of the Church of Sant'Antonio in Deruta , influenced by Bonfigli, he approached the Perugin school of Pinturicchio in the eighties with the banner of St. Francis (1482) of Montone , the Madonna in the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples .

The main works by Caporali could be present in two panels, formerly owned by the Barberini , the Birth of the Virgin (now New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art ) and the Offering in the Temple (Boston, Museum of Fine Arts ), but these are believed to be some art historians could also come from Piero della Francesca or Leon Battista Alberti , and in the decorations of the story of Saint Bernard from 1473 ( Perugia , Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria), made under the direction of Perugino, characterized by small figures that in architectural backgrounds are inserted with the perspective typical of the Umbrian Renaissance.

Bartolomeo Caporali died in Perugia between 1503 and October 1505.

Caporali's son, Giovanni Paolo, worked as a goldsmith.

  • Madonna with Child and Angels , Museo di San Marco, Florence

  • Annunciation , ca.1460, Musée du Petit Palais , Avignon

  • Crucifix , 1460–1470, Church of San Michele Arcangelo, Isola Maggiore , Lake Trasimeno

  • Crucifix , detail, 1460–1470, Church of San Michele Arcangelo, Isola Maggiore, Lake Trasimeno

  • Crucifix , detail, 1460–1470, Church of San Michele Arcangelo, Isola Maggiore, Lake Trasimeno

Works

  • Madonna of Fanciullo, 1459, Chiesa della Madonna del Fanciullo, Frazione Fanciullata, Deruta
  • Madonna of Mercy with Saints Francis and Bernard and four Evangelists, ca.1480, Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate, Deruta

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d Pietro Scarpellini: CAPORALI, Bartolomeo . In: Dizionario biografico degli italiani . tape 18 . Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1975 ( treccani.it ).
  2. ↑ a b c De Agostini (ed.): Le muse . tape 3 . Novara 1964, p. 70 .

literature

  • Pietro Scarpellini:  Caporali, Bartolomeo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 18:  Canella – Cappello. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1975.
  • Annibale Mariotti: Lettere pittoriche perugine . Perugia 1788.
  • GB Cavalcaselle, JA Crowe: Storia della pittura in Italia ... Florence 1908.
  • Adolfo Venturi : Storia dell'arte italiana . Milan 1913.
  • Carlo Gamba : Pittura umbra del Rinascimento . Novara 1949.

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personal data
SURNAME Bartolomeo Caporali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1420
PLACE OF BIRTH Perugia
DATE OF DEATH between 1503 and October 1505
Place of death Perugia