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Historical Artist - Bartolomé Bermejo (1405 - 1498)
Bartolome Bermejo was born in Cordova, Spain but first worked in Aragon in northern Spain. His
name at birth was Bartolome de Cardenas, but was nicknamed Bermejo because of his red hair or
complexion. He began working in Barcelona in 1486, finishing one of his greatest
accomplishments, Pieta in the Barcelona Cathedral, in 1490. Bermejo was one of the first Spanish
painters to work in the Netherlandish oil painting technique. Bermejo travelled extensively
throughout Spain, completing a variety of commissions for his Spanish and foreign patrons
(including the Triptych of the Virgin of Montserrat, the centre panel of which is by Bermejo).
It is often maintained that Bermejo must have travelled to the Southern Netherlands (present-day
Belgium) to receive such a mastery of oil painting techniques, but this is not necessarily so as
there was a strong presence of both Dutch painters and paintings in Spain during the fifteenth
century.
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