Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo Vivarini (c. 1432c. 1499) was an

Italian Renaissance The Italian Renaissance ( it, Rinascimento ) was a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries. The period is known for the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread across Europe and marked the trans ...

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

, known to have worked from 1450 to 1499.

Biography

Bartolomeo's brother

Antonio Vivarini Antonio Vivarini (Antonio of Murano) (active c. 14401480) was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance-late Gothic period, who worked mostly in the Republic of Venice. He is probably the earliest of a family of painters, which was descended ...

, and his nephew (also possibly his pupil)

Alvise Vivarini Alvise or Luigi Vivarini (1442/1453–1503/1505) was an Italian painter, the leading Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini. Like Bellini, he was part of a dynasty of painters. His father was Antonio Vivarini and his uncle, with whom he may ha ...

, were also painters. He learned

oil painting Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of ...

from

Antonello da Messina Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio, but also called Antonello degli Antoni and Anglicized as Anthony of Messina ( 1430February 1479), was an Italian painter from Messina, active during the Early Italian Renaissance. ...

, and is said to have produced, in 1473, the first oil picture done in

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. Housed in the basilica of

San Zanipolo The Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, known in Venetian as San Zanipolo, is a church in the Castello ''sestiere'' of Venice, Italy. One of the largest churches in the city, it has the status of a minor basilica. After the 15th century the fu ...

, it is a large altar-piece in nine divisions, representing

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and other saints. Most of his works, however, are in

tempera Tempera (), also known as egg tempera, is a permanent, fast-drying painting medium consisting of colored pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk. Tempera also refers to the paintings done ...

. His outline is always hard, and his colour good; the figures have much dignified and devout expression. As "vivarino" means in Italian a goldfinch, he sometimes drew a goldfinch as the signature of his pictures. The

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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(Washington D.C.), the

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, the

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, the

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, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan), Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna,

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, the

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and the

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are among the public collections holding works by Bartolomeo Vivarini.

Gallery

Christ Enthroned.jpg, ''

Christ Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament, names and titles), was ...

Enthroned'' by Bartolomeo Vivarini, 1450 VivariniM1.jpg, ''Madonna in trono'', painting by Bartolomeo Vivarini Left nave of Santi Giovanni e Paolo (Venice) - Vivarini, trittico di san Zanipolo.jpg, Polyptych of San Zanipolo 1473 Accademia - Polittico della Natività - Bartolomeo Vivarini.jpg, ''Conversano Polyptych'', 1475

Notes

External links

''Italian Paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection''
a collection catalog containing information about Vivarini and his works (see index; plate 94).

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vivarini, Bartolommeo Italian Renaissance painters Quattrocento painters Painters from Venice 1430s births 1490s deaths Italian male painters 15th-century Italian painters 15th-century Venetian people