Bartolomeo Vivarini

Madonna and Child, tempera and gold on panel painting by Bartolomeo Vivarini, ca. 1475, Honolulu Museum of Art

Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo Vivarini (c. 1432 – c. 1499) was an Italian painter, known to have worked from 1450 to 1499. His brother Antonio and his nephew (also possibly his pupil) Alvise 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.

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. The Getty Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Louvre, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), the National Gallery, London, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan), Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, the Rijksmuseum and the Uffizi are among the public collections holding works by Bartolomeo Vivarini.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Vivarini". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

Gallery

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  Christ Enthroned by Bartolomeo Vivarini, 1450

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  Madonna in trono, painting by Bartolomeo Vivarini

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  Bartolomeo Vivarini Conversano Polyptych, 157 x 271, 1475

The Brooklyn Art Museum and the Seattle Art Museum have paintings by Bartolomeo Vivarini also.In addition,there is a painting by this Italian Renaissance painter in the Hermitage Art Museum,Saint Petersburg,Russia("Madonna And Christ Child").