Taddeo di Bartolo

Taddeo di Bartolo (1362 - August 26 1422), also known as Taddeo Bartoli, was an Italian painter of the Sienese School during the early Renaissance. He is among the artists profiled in Vasari's "Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori" (or, in English, "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects"). Vasari claims he is the uncle of Domenico di Bartolo.

Works

Taddeo di Bartolo was born in Siena. Much of his early work was in Pisa, where he was responsible for the frescoes of "Paradise" and "Hell" in the Cathedral there, and for paintings in the Palazzo Pubblico and the church of San Francesco.

At the Collegiata di San Gimignano, Taddeo painted a fresco cyle depicting the Last Judgment. A painting by Taddeo of "" holding the town in his lap (c. 1391) may be seen at the Museo Civico there.

A triptcyh of the " (Szépművészeti Múzeum).

A massive triptych, "Assumption of the Virgin", painted in 1401, is now situated in the 16th century Duomo of Santa Maria dell'Assunta at Montepulciano.

Taddeo's "Madonna with Child, Four Angels and Saint John the Baptist and Saint Andrew" may be seen in the Oratory of the Company of Saint Catherine of the Night, at Santa Maria della Scala, Siena. He also painted allegories and figures from Roman history (1413-14), and the " in Siena.

A "Madonna and Child" (c. 1400), painted with tempera and oil on a panel, is located in the Wadsworth Atheneum, another "Madonna and Child" is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, and yet another "Madonna and Child" is housed in the Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon, France.

He died at Siena in 1422.

External links

* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mymuk/92299440/ Madonna and Child, with Four Angels, St. John the Baptist, St. Andrew] , dated 1400, by Taddeo di Bartolo, Oratory of the Company of Saint Catherine of the Night, Santa Maria della Scala, Siena.
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mymuk/88695511/ Apollo and Athena] fresco c.1414 in the Anticapella of the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena.
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124324682@N01/413714879/ Madonna and Child] , by Taddeo di Bartolo, Legion of Honor Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco.
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lemonreese/256496366/ Triptych of the Assumption of the Virgin] , 1401, by Taddeo di Bartolo, Montepulciano, Italy.
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/cuthbertian/139311961/ Madonna and Child] , by Taddeo di Bartolo,Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon, France.
* [http://www.aiwaz.net/gallery/taddeo-di-bartolo/gc353 Taddeo di Bartolo at Panopticon Virtual Art Gallery]

References

* [http://www.santamariadellascala.com/w2d3/v3/view/sms/luoghi--4/index_en.html Website of Santa Maria della Scala] , Siena, Itay.