Bartolomeo Caporali

Ss Francis of Assisi, Herculan, Luke, and James the Greater, painted by Caporali and now in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia

Bartolomeo Caporali (c. 1420-c. 1505 ; active 1454-1499) was an Italian painter born and active in Perugia. He was the father of Giovanni Battista Caporali and was part of the Umbrian School of Painting. He painted a Madonna and Saints (1487) for the church of Santa Maria Maddalena at Castiglione del Lago.

Works

• Virgin, Child and Angels (1477-1479), National Gallery of Umbria, Perugia
• Saints Nicholas, Lawrence, Peter the Martyr and Anthony of Padua, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
• Saint Francis of Assissi, Herculan, Luke and James the Greater, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
• Virgin and Child with Angels (1459), Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
• Annunciation, a triptych by Bonfigli (1467-1468), San Domenico (St. Dominic) Church, Perugia.
• Pietà (1486), cathédrale de Pérouse.
• Virbin and Saints (1487), Santa Maria Maddalena church, Castiglione del Lago.

References

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• Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 230. 
• Artfact,

External links

• Bartolomeo Caporali at Artcyclopedia