BARTOLOMEO di GIOVANNI. - Painter, whose personality was reconstructed by Berenson, who called him "pupil of Domenico" because of his collaboration with Domenico Ghirlandaio in Florence. The artist's name, moreover, had already been made known by documents published by Bruscoli. A more complete definition of B. was carried out by de Francovich. B. collaborated with Ghirlandaio on the Adoration of the Magi of the Ospedale degli Innocenti (he executed seven stories of the predella, dated 1488), and, it seems, at S. Maria Novella (1488-90). The Nativity and the Adoration of the Magi (1493) in the Hall of the Mysteries of the Borgia Apartment in the Vatican are also attributed to B. He also felt the influence of Botticelli and of Filippino Lippi.

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BIBL.: G. Bruscoli, L'Adorazione dei Magi. Tavola di Domenico Ghirlandaio nella chiesa della Spedale degli Innocenti. Con documenti inediti, Florence 1902; B. Berenson, Alunno di Domenico, in The Burlington Magazine, 1 (1903), p. 6 ff.; G. de Francovich, Nuovi aspetti della personalità di B. di C., in Bollettino d'arte, 2nd series, 6 (1926-27), pp. 65-92; id., Appunti su alcuni minori pittori fiorentini della seconda metà del sec. XV. ibid., pp. 540-43. G. Gronau, The last predella of an altarpiere by Domenico Ghirlandaio, in Art in America, 16 (1928), p. 16 ff.; B. Berenson, Pitture italiane del Innocimento, Milan 1936, p. 5 ff.; Anon., s. v. in Thieme-Becker, II, p. 572.

Elsa Gerlini

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