Bartolomeo Vivarini

Madonna and Child , tempera on wood, 1481, Fine Arts Museums , San Francisco

Bartolomeo Vivarini , also called Bartolommeo Vivarini or Bartolommeo da Murano , (* around 1432 in Murano ; † around 1499 ibid. (?)) Was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento , 15th century.

Life

Saint Augustine flanked by Saints Dominic and Lawrence , oil on panel, 1473, San Zanipolo , Venice

There is evidence that Vivarini worked between 1450 and 1499. His brother Antonio Vivarini and his son Alvise Vivarini were also painters. Alvise may even have been his student.

Most of Bartolomeo Vivarini's works were painted in tempera , but like many Venetian painters of his time he adopted the new technique of oil painting from Antonello da Messina , who stayed in Venice from around 1474 to 1476. Vivarini is said to have painted the first oil painting in Venice in 1473 , the nine-part altar in the Basilica of San Zanipolo . On this altarpiece, Augustine of Hippo is shown along with other saints. Bartolomeo's last dated work is a triptych from 1491. Alvise Vivarini continued the family workshop after Bartolomeo's death.

Today his works can be admired in churches in Venice and Italy. Other pictures he created are shown in museums around the world, the National Gallery Berlin lost one of the painter's works in the fire of the flak bunker in Berlin-Friedrichshain in 1945 .

Images in Italian churches

Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari , Venice: Saint Mark , altarpiece in the Cappella Corner.
Santa Maria Formosa , Venice: Triptych of Mercy
Santo Stefano , Venice: Saint Lawrence , 1460/1470.
Santi Giovanni e Paolo , Venice: Triptych of St. Augustine between St. Dominic and St. Lorenz , 1473.
Sant'Eufemia : Giudecca , Venice: San Rocco , 1480.
Modugno (Apulia) : Church of Maria Santissima Annunziata, L'Annunciazione , in the Pinacoteca provinciale di Bari until 2002 , 1472.
Polignano a Mare , Province of Bari, Apulia : Church of Santa Maria Assunta, Madonna with Child and Saints .
Zumpano , Calabria : San Giorgio, triptych

gallery

Madonna dell'Umiltá, Annunciation, Birth and Pietà , tempera and gold on wood, around 1465, Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York
Triptych of Santa Maria Formosa (Madonna in protective cloak), tempera on wood, 1473 (marble decor later), Santa Maria Formosa, Venice
Pala of St. Mark , tempera on wood, 1474, Cappella Corner, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari , Venice

literature

Giorgio De Leonardis: Un tesoro d'arte veneto in terra di Calabria. The step of Bartolomeo Vivarini a Zumpano . Giuseppe Laterza Edizioni, Bari - Roma 2010.
Giorgio Sinigaglia: De'Vivarini: pittori da Murano. Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, Bergamo 1905.

Web links

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

Literature by and about Bartolomeo Vivarini in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Dtv-Lexikon, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-423-03069-0 , p. 240/241.
↑ zeno.org
^ Peter Humfrey: The portrait in Venice of the 15th century. In: Keith Christiansen, Stefan Weppelmann (ed.): Faces of the Renaissance. Hirmer, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-88609-706-7 , pp. 64–76, here: 50

personal data
SURNAME	Vivarini, Bartolomeo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Vivarini, Bartolommeo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1432
PLACE OF BIRTH	Murano
DATE OF DEATH	around 1499
Place of death	unsure: Murano

[lex240-1] Dtv-Lexikon, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-423-03069-0 , p. 240/241.

[2] zeno.org

[3] Peter Humfrey: The portrait in Venice of the 15th century. In: Keith Christiansen, Stefan Weppelmann (ed.): Faces of the Renaissance. Hirmer, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-88609-706-7 , pp. 64–76, here: 50