Taddeo di Bartolo

Taddeo Di Bartolo, Self Portrait, Detail of Assumption of the Virgin, Located in the Duomo di Santa Maria dell'Assunta at Montepulciano. Taddeo di Bartolo (c. 1363 – 26 August 1422), also known as Taddeo Bartoli, was an Italian painter of the Sienese School during the early Renaissance. His biography appears in the Vite of Giorgio Vasari, who claims that Taddeo was the uncle of Domenico di Bartolo.

Biography Taddeo di Bartolo was born in Siena. The exact year of his birth is unknown, but possibly between 1363 and 1365. He was the son of a certain Bartolo di Maestro Mino, a barber, and not of the painter Bartolo di Fredi, as Vasari believed, and therefore Taddeo was not the brother of Andrea di Bartolo. Around 1389, Taddeo was admitted to the Sienese Guild of artists, where he mastered the art of painting among his Sienese colleagues. In 1389, he traveled to Collegarli, to the San Miniato al Tedesco hills, and to Pisa. One of his earliest documented works is the painting of The Virgin and Child Enthroned, signed and dated in 1390, executed in the church of San Paolo in Pisa. In 1393, he traveled to San Gimignano, where he executed the altarpiece of the Virgin and Child and Saints (1395) for the Sardi and Campigli Chapel in the church of San Francesco. In 1403, Taddeo produced two works in Perugia, now on display in the public gallery there: the Virgin and Child with two Angels and St Bernard and the Descent of the Holy Spirit. These two works exemplify Taddeo's superior talents, exhibiting delicate coloring and vast human expression, even though at later periods they have been painted over.

In 1406, Taddeo was commissioned to repaint the interior the chapel of the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena, which involved destroying all the existing paintings. Many of his new paintings represent the Life of the Madonna, including the Death of the Virgin in which Jesus descends, takes her hand, and receives her in the form of an infant. Christ Meeting Mother on Way to Calvary in the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts Madonna and Child With Angels in the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts Madonna and Child and Saints in the Palazzo Blu in Pisa "The Crucifixion" in the Art Institute of Chicago

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