Taddeo di Bartolo

1362-1422

Early Renaissance Italian Painter of the Sienese School

Stylistically influenced by the following painters and art styles ; Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Simone Martini, and  Duccio di Buoninsegna

Mediums - panel painting, frescoes and manuscript illumination

Cause of Death - bleeding gone awry

   
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  The prevailing characteristic of Taddeo di Bartolo's work being rich colour and spatial inventiveness. His gold backgrounds don't sharpen but soften the mood and lend a dazzling glow to his paintings. Bartolo's figures express raw, unfettered passion--passionate emotions that are not manufactured or abstracted. His concern was with dramatic action and human emotion. To make that dramatic action more effective, Bartolo placed his figures in a space more convincingly than earlier painters.  His depiction of Christ is kind and gracious, as if he has pity upon the longing of the soul of the believer. He avoids all contrived effects  and labors in the same style as Segna di Buonaventure, in whose works also the figures have  roundness and shadows. Bartolo's work is confident, exploratory and intense. He opened up a new world of emotion and passion, but with a lyricism and deep sensitivity to color.

His subjects, like his predecessors, are all religious – the Virgin Mary, the Life of Christ, the Apostles, Angeles and the Life of St. Francis.

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