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(1) Bartolomeo Buon
(b c. 1400–10; d c. 1464–7). He is first mentioned as a sculptor in 1425. In 1427 he produced figures for the well-head of the Cà d’Oro, a sumptuous Gothic palace (1424–31) built in Venice for Marino Contarini. In this early work the drapery of the allegories of the Virtues shows clear allusions to the portal of the Corner Chapel in S Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, a work by the Master of the Mascoli Altar (see VENICE, §IV, 4). In another early work, the Annunciation (Frankfurt am Main, Liebieghaus), there are references to one of the saints on the Mascoli Altar in S Marco, Venice (see VENICE, §IV, 1(ii)). Agreement has not been reached on the attribution of the group of the Judgement of Solomon, situated on the north-west corner of the Doge’s Palace (see VENICE, §IV, 6(i)). Probably created in the 1430s, it is considered by some scholars to be Bartolomeo’s finest sculptural work and by others to be the creation of Nanni di Bartolo.
Part of the Buon (i) family
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- Buon (i), Bartolomeo (c.1400-10-c.1464-7)
- Gothic, §III, 1(iv)(d): Italian stone sculpture: Veneto
- Italus, Franciscus, §IV, 3(i)(d): Sculpture: Renaissance and Mannerism, c. 1400–c. 1600: Early Renaissance, c. 1400–c. 1480
- Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists, §I: Master of the Mascoli Altar
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