Editing Fra Bartolomeo (section)

==Life==
[[Image:Bartolommeo, Fra ~ The Holy Family with the Infant St John in a Landscape.jpg|thumb|right|''Holy Family with the Infant St John'']]
He was born in [[Savignano di Prato]], [[Tuscany]]. He received the nickname of Baccio della Porta ("Baccio of the Gate"), for his house was near the Gate of San Pier Gattolini.{{refn|group=n|"Baccio" is an [[Italian diminutive]] for "[[Bartolommeo (name)|Bartolommeo]]".}}

Starting from 1483 or 1484, by recommendation of [[Benedetto da Maiano]], he apprenticed in the workshop of [[Cosimo Rosselli]]. In 1490 or 1491 he began a collaboration with [[Mariotto Albertinelli]]. In the late 1490s, Baccio was drawn to the teachings of [[Girolamo Savonarola|Fra Girolamo Savonarola]], who denounced what he viewed as vain and corrupt contemporary art. Savonarola argued for art serving as a direct visual illustration of the [[Bible]] to educate those unable to read the book. From 1498 is his famous portrait of Savonarola, now in the [[Museo Nazionale di San Marco]] in Florence. The following year he was commissioned a fresco of the ''Universal Judgement'' for the [[Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova]], completed by Albertinelli and [[Giuliano Bugiardini]] when Baccio became a [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] [[friar]] on 26 July 1500. The following year he entered the convent of San Marco.

He renounced painting for several years, not resuming until 1504 when he became the head of the monastery workshop in obedience to his superior. In that year he began a ''Vision of St. Bernard'' for Bernardo Bianco's family chapel in the [[Badia Fiorentina]], finished in 1507. Soon thereafter, [[Raphael]] visited Florence and befriended the friar. Bartolomeo learned perspective from the younger artist, while Raphael added skills in coloring and handling of drapery, which was noticeable in the works he produced after their meeting. With Raphael, he remained on the friendliest terms, and when he departed from Rome, left in his hands two unfinished pictures which Raphael completed.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=451}}

At the beginning of 1508, Bartolomeo moved to [[Venice]] to paint a ''Holy Father, St. Mary Magdalene and St. Catherine of Siena'' for the Dominicans of [[San Pietro Martire, Murano|San Pietro Martire]] in [[Murano]], influenced somewhat by Venetian colorism. As the Dominicans did not pay for the work, he took it back to [[Lucca]], where it can be seen now. Also in Lucca, in October 1509, he painted with Albertinelli an altarpiece of the ''Madonna and Child with Saints'' for the [[Cathedral of Lucca|local cathedral]]. On 26 November 1510 [[Pier Soderini]] commissioned him an altarpiece for the Sala del Consiglio of Florence, now in the Museum of San Marco. Two years later he finished another altarpiece  for the [[Besançon Cathedral|cathedral]] of [[Besançon]].

In 1513, he went to Rome, where he painted a ''Peter and Paul'', now in the [[Pinacoteca Vaticana]], while from the following years are the ''[[Mark the Evangelist|St. Mark Evangelist]]'' of [[Palazzo Pitti]] in Florence and the frescoes in the Dominican convent of Pian di Mugnone, a [[frazione]] of [[Fiesole]], just outside Florence. After a promised ''Feast of Venus'' for Duke [[Alfonso I d'Este]] of [[Ferrara]], of which only drawings remain, his last work is a fresco of ''[[Noli me tangere]]'' also in Pian di Mugnone.
[[File:Fra bartolomeo 03 Christ with the Four Evangelists.jpg|thumbnail|Fra Bartolomeo: ''Christ with the [[Four Evangelists]]'']]

He died in Florence in 1517.