Word: bartolommeo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheeked woman sitting smugly against the sea-green setting of winding water and oddly spired landscape.* Forty years after Leonardo's death a painter-journalist named Giorgio Vasari told the world that that woman had been Madonna Lisa, third wife of a Neapolitan named Francesco di Bartolommeo di Zanobi del Giocondo. Of Lisa little is known. Last week Dr. Raymond S. Stites, professor of art and esthetics at Antioch College, ended a twelve-year job of checking Vasari, announced that the woman was Isabella d'Este, wife of Francesco Gonzaga, marquis of Mantua. Of Isabella d'Este...
15th Century Portraits. Bartolommeo Colleoni was a 18th Century gangster who earned undying fame by making a shrewd contract with the Venetian Republic. He agreed to lead the Venetian army against Milan in return for a large sum in cash and a statue of himself on horseback in the middle of St. Mark's Square. The statue was finally erected blocks away, but it was by Verrocchio. It is now generally considered the greatest equestrian statue in the world...
Girolamo Savonarola, whom Fra Bartolommeo's portrait shows as the most Italianate of all holy men, fled from an evil world into what he hoped would be the vital reality of a Dominican convent. He soon found monastic life a minor copy of the world outside. The corruption of the clergy became his battle-cry. At first Savonarola had little success among the Dominicans, a preaching order, for he was as forceless a speaker as the tyro Demosthenes. But one day amidst a crowd of blasphemous soldiers he lost his temper and found his tongue. Called to preach...
Banker Dreyfus not only collected the works of great artists, he tried whenever possible to have those works the portraits of great Renaissance characters. There is Philip the Handsome of Spain; Princess Beatrice of Aragon; the Princess Medea, daughter of that great swashbuckler and Bergamese Bravo, Bartolommeo Colleoni; Giovanni Bentivoglio, tyrant of Bologna, and the dashing Guiliano dei Medici, murdered in church by the Pazzi...