| Bartolomeo
Di Giovanni (active 1480-1510 in Florence) |
| Florentine painter
known also as Alunno di Domenico (Pupil of Domenico). This name was invented
by Bernard Berenson for the Florentine painter to whom he ascribed most
of the designs for Florentine woodcut book-illustrations of the late 15th
century. This wholesale attribution has not won general acceptance, but
the actual pupil and assistant of Domenico Ghirlandaio postulated by Berenson
has been identified as Bartolomeo di Giovanni, who was commissioned to paint
the predella of Ghirlandaio's Adoration of the Magi in the Spedale degli
Innocenti (Foundling Hospital) in Florence, in 1488. He was most important
and talented artist in Ghirlandaio's workshop, who had made an individual
and pleasing impression in the fresco of the Sistine Chapel. He has an intense,
almost biting Nordic style, and he anticipates the rapid and nervous manner
of Piero di Cosimo. He also worked under Botticelli's guidance. |