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Bartolommeo Bartolommeo (Vivarini )
Bartolommeo Bartolommeo (Vivarini )
Born in : Murano - 1430 / Dead in : Venise, 1499
Brother of Antonio Vivarini (Antonio de Murano)


Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo Vivarini 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.

Biography   
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 Academy of Arts, 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.

From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeo_Vivarini
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Uncle of Alvise Vivarini
Achievement   
Louvre Museum
Artist
Saint Jean de Capistran
Painting
Bartolommeo
(1459)

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist
Saint (Marc ?) lisant
Painting
Bartolommeo
(near 1470)
La mort de la Vierge
Painting
Bartolommeo
(1484)

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Artist
Panneau d'un retable représentant saint Jacques le Majeur
Painting
Bartolommeo
(from 1450 to 1490)
Panneau d'un retable représentant saint François d'Assise
Painting
Bartolommeo
(from 1450 to 1490)

The California Palace of the Legion of Honor
Artist
Vierge et l'Enfant
Painting
Bartolommeo
(1481)
Bartolommeo Bartolommeo
Vivarini
Alvise Vivarini