Berlinghiero Berlinghieri

Crucifix, around 1220, Lucca, Pinacoteca Civica

Berlinghiero Berlinghieri (* Milan ; verifiable from 1228 in Lucca ; † before or around 1242 in Lucca) was an Italian painter.

In addition to a crucifix signed Berlingerius me pinxit in Lucca, there are only two other documents in which Berlinghiero Berlinghieri is mentioned. The first from 1228 describes him as a native of Milan. The second says that he has already passed away.

Berlinghiero Berlinghieri was still strongly influenced by the formal language of Byzantine painting , but he knew how to design it in his own way and individually, so that his pictures show a considerable further development of the given patterns. His skills set the style for subsequent artists and were mainly carried on by his sons Bonaventura , Barone and Marco . His fame was obviously great enough during his lifetime that he also had a lasting influence on painters from other areas. In Florence and the surrounding area in particular , his conception of art fell on fertile ground and influenced such artists as the Master of Bigallo or the Master of the Cross No. 434 .

Based on his only secured work, the crucifix painted in Lucca around 1220, research ascribes a few other works to him, but the relationship between him and his sons is not always secure.

Selected Works

• Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais
  • Christ head. (Fragment of a crucifix; another part in Rio de Janeiro)
• Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art
  • Triptych with Mary with the child.
• Lucca, Pinacoteca Civica
  • Crucifix. around 1220
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Maria with the child. around 1230 - 1240
• Pisa, cathedral
  • Maria with the child.
• Raleigh, Museum of Art
  • Maria with the child.
• Rio de Janeiro, Museo Nacionale
  • The left arm of Christ and St. John. (Fragment of a crucifix; another part in Avignon)

literature

• Isa Belli Barsali:  Berlinghiero (Berlingerius, Berling-hierus Melanesi). In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 9:  Berengario – Biagini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1967.
• "Kindler's Malereilexikon", Kindler Verlag AG, Zurich 1964–1971,

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