Baldovinetti, Alesso
Baldovinetti, Alesso (
b Florence, ?1425;
d Florence, 29 Aug. 1499). Florentine painter, mosaicist, and worker in stained glass. Nothing is recorded of his training, but his graceful and refined style shows strong influence from
Domenico Veneziano, who may well have been his master. Baldovinetti's finest works include a damaged but still enchanting fresco of the
Nativity (1460–2) in the forecourt of SS. Annunziata, Florence, a
Madonna and Child (
c.1460) in the Louvre, Paris, an
Annunciation (
c.1460) in the Uffizi, Florence, and
Portrait of a Lady in Yellow (
c.1465) in the National Gallery, London. They show his remarkable sensitivity to light and landscape and his engaging blend of naivety and sophistication. In his
History of Italian Renaissance Art (1970), Frederick Hartt writes that Baldovinetti was ‘the finest painter in Florence’ in the 1460s, and considers him ‘a very gifted master who somehow never quite seemed to fulfil his great initial promise’.
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MICHAEL TYZACK ; Painter and jazz trumpeter who exchanged Sheffield and London for Charleston, South Carolina
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/19/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Greenberg. Tyzack's prize picture, Alesso B, was a seductively coloured...title to the Renaissance painter Alesso Baldovinetti's Portrait of a Lady in Yellow...Gallery, Liverpool, acquired Alesso B. Asked how he would like viewers...
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Portrait of the artists
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...true' portraiture. To her left is that marvellous early Renaissance profile on blue, 'Portrait of a Lady' by Alesso Baldovinetti, a brilliant high-wire act between pattern-making and description. Behind, there is another mesmering picture...
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Alesso Baldovinetti
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Alesso Baldovinetti , c.1425-1499, Italian painter...74) have deteriorated because of Baldovinetti's unfortunate experiments with...and Uffizi) in a serene style. Baldovinetti was considered the foremost designer...
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Baldovinetti, Alesso
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Baldovinetti, Alesso ( b Florence, ?1425; d Florence...who may well have been his master. Baldovinetti's finest works include a damaged...1970), Frederick Hartt writes that Baldovinetti was ‘the finest painter...
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Ghirlandaio, Domenico (1449–1494)
Book article from: The Renaissance
...garlands he created for wealthy young women of the city. Domenico later studied painting and mosaic with the artist Alesso Baldovinetti, in whose workshop he developed great skill at the art of fresco painting, in which paint is applied to wet plaster...
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Domenico Ghirlandaio
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1449-94, Florentine painter, whose family name was Bigordi. He may have studied painting and mosaics under Alesso Baldovinetti. Ghirlandaio was an excellent technician. Keenly observant of the contemporary scene, he depicted many prominent...
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