Bonaventure Berlinghieri

Bonaventura Berlinghieri (traceable from 1228 to 1274 in Lucca ) was an Italian painter.

Life

Bonaventura Berlinghieri was the son of Berlinghiero Berlinghieri , from whom he was also trained. Around 1235 he painted a Saint Francis , which is in the church of San Francesco in Pescia and is his only known work. Around 1244 he is said to have painted the private rooms of the Archbishop of Lucca with birds and ornamental motifs, none of which has survived.

Although you can clearly see that he followed his father's style, Bonaventura did not know how to implement his own individuality, so that his pictures are closer to Byzantine painting than his works. Nonetheless, he was also a stylistic element for the subsequent generation of painters and even influenced, especially in Florence , high-ranking painters such as B. the master of the Bardi altar .

Based on his only secured work, research tried to ascribe a few more works to him.

Selected Works

• Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi
  • Double panel: Mary with the child and saints; The crucifixion of Christ. around 1260 - 1270
• Pescia, San Francesco
  • Saint Francis with scenes from his life.
• Rome, Palazzo Barberini
  • Crucifix.
• Tereglio, parish church
  • Crucifix.

Saint Francis

St. Francis and scenes from his life. Altarpiece , 1235, 160 × 123 cm, Pescia , San Francesco

The altarpiece of St. Francis from 1235 is less a portrait than a combination of identifying features: rough gray-brown habit , belt cord with three knots that symbolize poverty, chastity and obedience, hands and feet marked with wounds , ascetic face with a thin beard and tonsure in the hair. Three small scenes on each side tell the viewer how St. Francis received the stigmata. This work is the Greek style ( maniera greca ), from which Italian art, as Renaissance authors later claim, was freed by Giotto . This painting was created only nine years after the death of St. Francis of Assisi and painted after memories of him.

Forty years later, in 1283, an unknown artist created a painting of the same type in Santa Chiara in Assisi with the successor of Francis, St. Clare .

literature

• Kindler's Malereilexikon , Vol. 1: Aach - Blum . Kindler Verlag AG, Zurich 1964–1971.
• Hugh Honor, John Fleming: World History of Art . Prestel Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7913-2094-7 , p. 367 f.