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Bartolommeo
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Bartolommeo
Fra. original name Baccio della Porta. 1472--1517, Italian painter of the Florentine school, noted for his austere religious works


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As the author examines the work of twelve painters, Perugino, Leonardo, Hero di Cosimo, Michelangelo, Fra Bartolomeo, Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, Andrea del Sarto, Franciabigio, Rosso Fiorentino, Pontormo, Salviati, and Vasari, he observes a dichotomy of style between innovative and conservative painters.
This raises the issue of how much the mountain-born Chiara could have read and understood her younger lover's letters with classical allusions (based on letter-writing guides); Weinstein presupposing limited female literacy postulates a clerical interpreter, fra Bartolomeo.
 
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