Bernardino Mei

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Bernardino Mei (born October 23, 1612 in Siena ; died 1676 in Rome ) was an Italian painter who painted in the style of the Siena School at the beginning of his career .

Oreste uccide Egisto e Clitennestra , Palazzo Salimbeni, Siena

Life

Bernardino Mei was born to Girolamo di Agnolo and Celia Camozzi. He first appeared as an artist in 1634, when he created works as an illuminator for the Libri dei Leoni . He learned his craft from Rutilio Manetti . Early works are based on Giuliano Periccioli (* 1600 in Siena, † around 1646 in Florence ), Francesco Rustici and Raffaello Vanni . The works of the Carracci family, those of Andrea Sacchi and the works of Caravaggio had a greater influence on his later artistic work . Around 1657 Mei moved to Rome , where he worked for Pope Alexander VII, among others .

Works (selection)

Allegoria della Fortuna , Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
Antioco e Stratenice , Palazzo Salimbeni, Siena
  • Ariccia , Palazzo Chigi: Inverno
  • Bettolle (district of Sinalunga ), Chiesa di San Cristoforo: San Pietro in ginocchio
  • Bitonto , Galleria nazionale della Puglia: Cristo deriso
  • Buonconvento , Museo d'arte sacra della val d'arbia: San Pietro liberato dal carcere (comes from the Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo, canvas painting, 65 × 100 cm)
  • Casole d'Elsa , Museo archeologico e della Collegiata: Painted wooden figures
  • Certosa San Lorenzo di Galluzzo , Pinacoteca: Santa Caterina da Siena
  • Grosseto , Museo archeologico e d'arte della Maremma: Santa Cecilia
  • Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica: Allegoria della Fortuna , oil painting, 179 × 271 cm
  • Rome, Santa Maria della Pace : 2 baptismal images in the baptistery
  • Rome, Santa Maria del Popolo : Sacra famiglia
  • Siena, Chiesa di San Giovannino della Staffa:
    • Decollazione del Battista (1647)
    • Il Battista davanti al Erode
  • Siena, Chiesa di Sant'Agostino : Miracolo di Santo Stefano
  • Siena, Chiesa di Santa Maria di Provenzano:
    • Giaele che uccide Sisara
    • Messa di San Gregorio Magno
    • Profezia di Brandano
    • Storia di Guida Maccabeo
  • Siena, Museo Diocesano di Arte Sacra, Oratorio della Compagnia di San Bernardino, room 1: Santa Caterina d'Alessandria
  • Siena, Oratorio di San Giovanni Battista, also called Oratorio dei Tredicini , Contradenkirche of the Contrada Aquila: Natività del Battista
  • Siena, Oratorio di San Rocco : Storie della Vita di San Giobbe
  • Siena, Palazzo Chigi-Saracini :
    • Giudizio di Salomone (Sala Casella)
    • Sofonisba (Sala di Legno)
  • Siena, Palazzo Piccolomini, Archivio di Stato di Siena:
    • Adorazione dei Pastori (Museo delle Biccherne)
    • Libro dei leoni (illuminations from 1634)
  • Siena, Palazzo Salimbeni :
    • Amore curato dal Tempo con l'acqua del fiume Lete (oil painting from 1653, 160 × 180 cm)
    • Antioco e Stratenice (oil painting, 204 × 294 cm)
    • Artemisia vedova del re Mausolo beve le lacrime miste alla ceneri del marito defunto (oil painting from 1654 approx., Located in the Seconda sala del Fondaco)
    • Il ciarlatano (oil painting from 1656 approx. 190 × 135 cm)
    • La Fortuna tra la Virtù e la Necessità (oil painting from 1653, 158 × 180 cm)
    • Oreste uccide Egisto e Clitennestra (oil painting from 1654 approx., 157 × 180 cm)
  • Siena, Pieve di Val di Pugna: Madonna e Santi
  • Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale , room 33:
    • Allegoria dell'ingiustizia
    • Allegoria della pace
    • Allegoria della purezza
    • Allegoria della vittoria
    • Cardinale Rolando Bandinelli (1653)
    • Crocifissione di San Pietro
    • Ghismunda
    • Maddalena che mediata sul Crocifisso
    • Papa Alessandro III. Bandinelli
    • San Giovanni Evangelista
    • San Girolamo che scrive
  • Siena, Santa Maria della Scala : Ritratto di Giacomo Sansedoni (oil painting on canvas, created in 1641)

literature

  • Annette Wagner-Wilke: Mei, Bernardino . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 88, de Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-023254-7 , p. 252 f.
  • General Lexicon of Visual Artists, twenty-fourth volume, EA Seemann publishing house, Leipzig 1930
  • Annalisa Pezzo:  Mei, Berardino. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 73:  Meda-Messadaglia. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2009.
  • Bruno Santi: Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena. La collezione d'arte , Scala, Florence 1999
  • Piero Torriti: Tutta Siena. Contrada per Contrada , Edizioni Bonechi, Florence 2004, ISBN 88-7204-456-1

Web links

Commons : Bernardino Mei  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annalisa Pezzo (Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani)
  2. ^ Serena Padovani / Bruno Santi: Buonconvento. Museo d'arte sacra della val d'arbia, Sagep Editrice, Genoa 1981, ISBN 88-7058-021-0
  3. ↑ [1] Website of the Web Gallery of Art
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. San Galgano website  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sangalgano.org
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  8. ↑ Bruno Santi: Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena: La collezione d'arte , Scala, Florence 1999, p. 66
  9. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated June 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Monte dei Paschi di Siena about the painting with image detail  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mps.it
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personal data
SURNAME Mei, Bernardino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1612
PLACE OF BIRTH Siena
DATE OF DEATH 1676
Place of death Rome