\paperw3795 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \b BARTOLO DI FREDI\par
\b0 Italian painter\par
(Siena c\i . \i0 1330 û 1410)\par
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The author of numerous works for the church
es of Siena, Pienza, Montalcino, San Gimignano and Volterra, he interpreted the lesson of the Sienese masters of the early fourteenth century, and of \b \cf4 \ATXht1044 Simone Martini \b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and the \b \cf4 \ATXht1037 Lorenzetti\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 brothers in particular, in an old-fashioned style. In the large cycle of \i Scenes from the Old Testament\i0 in the collegiate church of San Gimignano, signed and dated 1367 and partly inspired by Taddeo GaddiÆs frescoes in the Camposanto at Pisa, he of
fered an updated interpretation of the LorenzettiÆs handling of space, but spurned the rigor and unity sought by the two brothers in favor of lively representations dominated by a sense of the fabulous and grotesque and new touches of naturalism and expr
