Bartolomeo vivarini biography of abraham
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Bartolomeo Vivarini
Italian painter
Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo Vivarini (c. 1432 – c.
Bartolomeo vivarini biography of abraham
1499) was an Italian Renaissance painter, known to have worked from 1450 to 1499.
Biography
Bartolomeo's brother Antonio Vivarini, and his nephew (also possibly his pupil) Alvise Vivarini, were also painters.
He learned oil painting from Antonello da Messina, and is said to have produced, in 1473, the first oil picture done in Venice. Housed in the basilica of San Zanipolo, it is a large altar-piece in nine divisions, representing Augustine and other saints.[1]
Most of his works, however, are in tempera.
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.[1] The Getty Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Louvre, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Nationa