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Historical Artist - Fra Bartolommeo (1535 - 1612)
As a youth, Bartolommeo studied first with a local painter and then worked in
Ghirlandaio’s workshop. In 1500, he became a monk and burned all of his paintings that
were not of religious subjects. Bartolommeo became the head of the San Marco monastery workshop
in 1504. Then in 1508, he became the leading painter in the Florentine school. He traveled to
Venice and Rome in 1514 and spread his influence through his drawings. The San Marco workshop
closed not long after his death in 1517. Fra Bartolomeo's compositions are remarkable for skill
in the massing of light and shade, richness and delicacy of colouring, and for the admirable
drapery of the figures, Bartolomeo having been the first to introduce and use the lay-figure
with joints.
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