I only know that in the afternoon, when the air was aglow with the sunset, I was standing before the church of Saints John and Paul and looking up at the small square-jawed face of
Bartolommeo Colleoni, the terrible condottiere who sits so sturdily astride of his huge bronze horse, on the high pedestal on which Venetian gratitude maintains him.
He joined the Oratory of Eternal Wisdom, where he met
Bartolommeo Ferrari and Glacomo Antonio Morigia.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Balthus (March 1, 1908), Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853), Michelangelo (March 6, 1475), Adolph Gottlieb (March 14, 1903), and Fra
Bartolommeo (March 28, 2019).
Sheets by Goya, Claude and Ingres also made sevenfigure sums, with the little Fra
Bartolommeo landscape of Fiesole coming in just under.
(Seeing Verrochio's late fifteenth-century
Bartolommeo Colleoni in Venice was one of the catalysts in Frink's process of becoming an artist.) Humans need animals, according to Frink, who was deeply involved in humanitarian causes, including a charity called Farms for City Children.
Sappiate, Signiori, che a me mi pare trapassare San
Bartolommeo di merito di gran martire: lui fu solamente iscorticato, ma io sono stato nella mia gloriosa patria a torto scorticato, e appresso s'e fatto la notomia del resto della mia male avventurata carne [...].
Giorgio Vasari famously recounted the story of a painting of St Sebastian by Fra
Bartolommeo eliciting such a sensuous response from women that it had to be removed from its position in church.
In a letter dated September 1531 to
Bartolommeo Valori, Giovanni Battista Mini mentions that Michelangelo had visited him in the company of Bugiardini and Antonio Mini, Giovanni's nephew (II Carteggio 3: 329-30).
A familiar genre scene (Matthew 2:14; cf
Bartolommeo, Rest, C1509, Getty Center), Veronese invigorates the narrative with movement, symbolism, and emotional content, from familial harmony and repose to foreboding (the landscape and sky).
Ludovico's return to Milan in September 1479 revitalized the plans for the bronze, as did the deliberations of the Venetian Senate in July 1479 on the erection of a comparable statue in honor of the condottiere
Bartolommeo Colleoni of Bergamo, for which Verrocchio, Leonardo's teacher, was subsequently invited to submit a model.