Tomaso Barisini, better known as Tommaso da Modena and sometimes called Tomaso Baffini (1326 – 1379) was an Italian painter of the mid-14th century.

Biography

Tommaso trained in

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and worked mostly in Northern Italy, but also worked for the court of the Emperor Charles IV in

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. In

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, two pictures on wood are attributed to him, an ''Ecce Homo'' and a ''Madonna''. A ''St Catherine'' is in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. Perhaps Tommaso's most important work was done in

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. In 1352 as an expression of the Dominican intellectual vocation Tommaso was commissioned to paint a fresco cycle of 40 Dominicans scholars at their desks including Popes, Cardinals, theologians, and philosophers. The work is in the chapter room of the former Dominican convent of San Nicolo' at

, now a seminary. Among others, the cycle portrays Cardinal

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Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas, OP (; it, Tommaso d'Aquino, lit=Thomas of Aquino; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest who was an influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism; he is known wi ...

, Cardinal Hugh Aycelin, and Cardinal

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, all of whom were professors of the Dominican ''studium'' at Santa Sabina the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, ''Angelicum'', as well as Bishop and

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founder of the Dominican ''studium'' at Cologne, and renowned biblical commentator Cardinal

Hugh of Saint-Cher Hugh of Saint-Cher ( la, Hugo de Sancto Charo), Dominican Order, O.P. (c. 1200 – 19 March 1263) was a French people, French Dominican Order, Dominican friar who became a cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal and noted Bible, biblical commentator. ...

. The portrait of Saint-Cher is the earliest known depiction of a person wearing spectacles.http://dominicanhistory.blogspot.com/2011/05/forty-dominicans-at-their-desks.html Accessed 3-1-2013; http://www.lionstrevisoduse.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/tomaso/html/opere/dom_txt.htm Accessed 3-1-2013

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* 14th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Venice Painters from Modena Year of death missing Year of birth missing {{Italy-painter-14thC-stub