- Bartolomeo Bimbi
Bartolomeo Bimbi (1648-1723) was a Florentine painter of
still lifes spurred by his patrons including Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany to paint large canvases of flora and fauna for the Medici Villa dell'Ambrogiana and della Topaia, now conserved in thePitti Palace and the Museo Botanico dell'Universita. He partly was following the tradition ofJacopo Ligozzi . He was a pupil ofLorenzo Lippi andOnorio Marinari . Others claim he was a pupil ofAngelo Gori [cite book | first= Maria|last= Farquhar| year=1855| title= Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters| editor = Ralph Nicholson Wornum | pages= page 26| publisher= Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006| id= | url= http://books.google.com/books?q=intitle:Wornum+intitle:principal+intitle:painters | authorlink= ] .References
* [http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/flowerartist.htm National Gallery Art exhibition titled "The Flowering of Florence; Botanical art for the Medici"]
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