Vitale da Bologna

Vitale da Bologna (c. 1309–1360), also known as Vitale di Aymo de' Cavalli or Vitale degli Equi, was an Italian painter of the

Early Renaissance

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He is a representative of the 14th century school of painting in

Bertrand de Saint Geniès.^[1] In Udine, he painted a fresco cycle for the main chapel of the Duomo, as well as frescoes in the adjacent confraternity chapel of St Nicholas. He is last registered in Bologna in 1359, and is thought to have died in December of that year or early 1360.^[2]

His masterwork is the panel with St. George and the Dragon, held in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. Also notable is the Madonna dei Denti ("Madonna of the Teeth", signed and dated 1345), in the Davia-Bargellini Museum in Bologna.

Universally attributed to him are the large Nativity fresco originally from the confraternity church of Santa Maria della Mezzaratta in the Bolognese countryside, now detached and conserved in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, and the fresco known as the Madonna del Ricamo ("Embroidering Madonna"), originally from

Museo della Storia di Bologna.^[3]

References

^ Casadio, Paolo (1990). Itinerari di Vitale da Bologna: affreschi ad Udine e Pomposa. Bologna: Nuova Alfa. pp. 49–88.
^ Raffaella Pini in Medica, Massimo, ed. (2010). Le Madonne di Vitale: pittura e devozione a Bologna nel Trecento. Ferrara: Edisai. pp. 33–41.
^ Gibbs, Robert, 'Vitale da Bologna', Grove Art Online.

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[1] Casadio, Paolo (1990). Itinerari di Vitale da Bologna: affreschi ad Udine e Pomposa. Bologna: Nuova Alfa. pp. 49–88.

[2] Raffaella Pini in Medica, Massimo, ed. (2010). Le Madonne di Vitale: pittura e devozione a Bologna nel Trecento. Ferrara: Edisai. pp. 33–41.

[3] Gibbs, Robert, 'Vitale da Bologna', Grove Art Online.

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