Fra Baccio della Porta Bartolomeo

Years of life:	1474 – 1517
Art Movement:	High Renaissance
Painting School:	Florentine School

Genre:	Religious
Country:	Italy
Century:	XV , XVI

An outstanding Florentine painter whose work reflected the transition from the Early Renaissance to the High Renaissance. His large-scale, elaborate altarpieces of throned Madonnas with the Christ child show the main characteristics of the High Renaissance style—monumental, solemn, balanced, with dignified compositions and figures. Instead of the detailing typical of the Early Renaissance. Bartolomeo replaced the intensely observed detail of the early Renaissance with generalizations (notice it especially in faces and drapery) and idealization.

Bartolomeo’s major works are Portrait of Savonarola, c. 1495 (Florence: Convent of San Marco); Marriage of St. Catherine, 1511 (Paris: Musée du Louvre); Mother of Mercy, 1515 (Lucca, Italy: Academy).

References:

Robert Cumming. Art: complete encyclopedia. – 512 p. – Moscow: Astrel, 2005.

Artworks:

The Holy Family with St John the Baptist

between 1506 and 1507

The Holy Family with St John the Baptist • between 1506 and 1507
San Marco

1515

San Marco • 1515
Prophet Job

1516

Prophet Job • 1516
Christ Crowned with Thorns

Christ Crowned with Thorns
The Rest on The Flight into Egypt

1500

The Rest on The Flight into Egypt • 1500
The Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine

1512

The Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine • 1512
Christ with the Four Evangelists

1516

Christ with the Four Evangelists • 1516
Vision of St Bernard with Sts Benedict and John the Evangelist

1504

Vision of St Bernard with Sts Benedict and John the Evangelist • 1504
Adoration of the Child

1499

Adoration of the Child • 1499
The Annunciation

1497

The Annunciation • 1497
The Marriage of St Catherine of Siena

1511

The Marriage of St Catherine of Siena • 1511
Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola

1498

Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola • 1498
The Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist

between 1505 and 1515

The Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist • between 1505 and 1515