Bartolomeo Vivarini

Madonna and Child, tempera and gold on panel painting by Bartolomeo Vivarini, c. 1475, Honolulu Museum of Art

Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo Vivarini (c. 1432c. 1499) was an Italian Renaissance painter, known to have worked from 1450 to 1499.

Biography Bartolomeo's brother Antonio Vivarini, and his nephew (also possibly his pupil) Alvise Vivarini, were also painters.

He learned oil painting from Antonello da Messina, and is said to have produced, in 1473, the first oil picture done in Venice. Housed in the basilica of San Zanipolo, it is a large altar-piece in nine divisions, representing Augustine and other saints.

Most of his works, however, are in tempera. His outline is always hard, and his colour good; the figures have much dignified and devout expression. As "vivarino" means in Italian a goldfinch, he sometimes drew a goldfinch as the signature of his pictures. VivariniM1.jpg|Madonna in trono, painting by Bartolomeo Vivarini Left nave of Santi Giovanni e Paolo (Venice) - Vivarini, trittico di san Zanipolo.jpg|Polyptych of San Zanipolo 1473 Accademia - Polittico della Natività - Bartolomeo Vivarini.jpg| Conversano Polyptych, 1475