(b Foligno, 1408–11; d Rome, before 6 Feb 1454). Italian painter. He is first documented in 1425 in Ancona, where he may have trained with Olivuccio di Ceccarello ( fl 1388–1439). Possible early works include a Virgin and Child (Milan, Brera) and two scenes from the Life of St Francis (Venice, Fond. Cini; Baltimore, MD, Walters A.G.). His first secure work is the panel of the Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and the Blessed Pietro Crisci from a triptych commissioned for S Salvatore, Foligno, in 1432, and this shows his familiarity with the work of Sassetta and possibly Masaccio. From 1434 Bartolomeo worked at Fano, where he executed frescoes (1434–9; destr.) on the façade of S Guiliano. He received an important commission in 1439, to execute the high altarpiece (destr.) for S Francesco, Cesena. From 1441 to 1451 he lived in Foligno and executed works including frescoes of St Barbara, the Madonna of Loreto and St Anthony Preaching (all 1449; Foligno, Pin. Civ.), the Rospigliosi Triptych (c. 1450; Rome, Pin. Vaticana) and the fresco of the Last Judgement (c. 1450; Terni, S Francesco). He was in Rome c. 1451–2 in the service of Pope Nicholas V, but no work survives. In 1452 he donated a triptych (possibly Venice, Fond. Cini) to S Maria Maddalena, Foligno. Bartolomeo’s imaginative and expressionistic treatment of subject-matter and innovative compositions influenced artists in the Marches, particularly Nicola di Maestro Antonio and Andrea Delitio.