18 BAROCCI—BARTOLOMEO. Loreto, Annunciation. Florence, Uf- fizj, Christ with the Magdalen, Noli me Tangere; and the Madonna del Popolo. Louvre, Madonna in Glory, wiUi Saints. National GaUeiy, Ma- donna del Gatto. (Bellori.) BARTOLI, DoMENico, painted 1438-^4. Sienese School. Said hy Yasari to have been the nephew and scholar of Taddeo Bartoli, which is now douhted; he was a native of Asciano. Works, Siena, Hospital della Scala, frescoes, the Works of Mercy. Berlin Museum, the Assumption of the Virgin, attributed to him. ( Vasari.) BARTOLI, Taddeo, b, at Siena, 1363, d. Sept 1422. Sienese School. Taddeo was one of the most advanced painters of his age. Sach of his works as remain, and many of his frescoes have perished, are conspicuous for that simple and impressive piety of feeling which characterises all the better masters of the quattrocento schools. Taddeo executed many works, at Perugia, Yolterra, Padua, and in the neighbourhood of Siena. Works. Perugia, Academy, Ma- donna and Child, and two Angels, with musical instruments (1403) ; two pic-, tures of Saints (?) ; Church of St. Agos- tino. Descent of the Holy Ghost. Siena, Academy, the Annunciation; walls of the chapel of the Palazzo della Signoria, Life of the Virgin ; St. Christopher, &c. (1407-14); Santa Caterina della Nojbte, Madonna and Child, with Angels. San Gemi- gnano, Virgin and Saints ; San Gemi- gnano. Volterra, Sant' Antonio, various Saints. Louvre, Virgin and Child, and Saints. {Vasari.) BARTOLINI, Giuseppe Makia, ft. at Imola, 1657, d. 1721. Bolognese School. The pupil and imitator of Pasinelli and Cignani. Works. Imola, San. Domenioo, and other churches. BARTOLO Di Fredi, painted 1356- 88, I. 1409. Sienese SchooL He was, according to Vasari, the father of Taddeo Bartoli, or di Bartoli; this appears to be an error. Works, Siena, Galleiy of the Aca- demy, Presentation in the Temple; Sposalizio ; Assumption of the Virgin. Berlin Gall., St. Catherine borne to Heaven by Angels ; The Adoration of the Kings. BARTOLOMEO, di San Maeco, Era, called also Baccio della Porta, b. in Savignano in 1469, d. at Florence, in the convent of St Mark, Oct. 6, 1517, aged only forty-eight. Tuscan School. This great painter received his early instruction in the school of Cosimo Roselli, and there, says Vasari, studied the works of Leonardo da Vinci. Bartolomeo had been the friend of Savonarola, and in 1497, when that enthusiast had reached the height of his influence, he commenced a crusade against the representation of the naked form, and induced Barto- lomeo, Lorenzo di Credi, and some other distinguished artists, actu£dly to contribute their own works towards a great bonfire at the celebration of the Carnival of that year. And when, in May of 1498, Savonarola was strangled and his body publicly burnt by order of the then authorities of Florence, it had such an effect upon Bartolomeo, that in the summer of 1500 he entered the Dominican Convent at Prato, gave up his profession, and assumed the monastic garb: he did not return to his profession until 1506. He was without exception the most distin- guished painter in Florence before the return of Leonardo from Milan. His own peculiar style seems to have been afterwards considerably influenced both by Raphael and by the works of Iioo- nardo, whose prominent relief, ad- mirable chiaroscuro, and delicacy of execution, Fra Bartolomeo fully at-
