Bartolomeo Bimbi

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Medici citrus collection, 1715

Bartolomeo Bimbi
Born	1648
Died	1723
Nationality	Italian
Field	Painting
Movement	Mannerism
Works	Still life painting

Bartolomeo Bimbi (1648–1723) was a Florentine painter of still lifes, spurred by his patrons including Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany to paint large canvases of flora and fauna for the Medici Villa dell'Ambrogiana and della Topaia, now conserved in the Pitti Palace and the Museo Botanico dell'Universita.

He partly was following the tradition of Jacopo Ligozzi in documenting the botanical collections of the Medici. He was a pupil of Lorenzo Lippi and Onorio Marinari. Others claim he was a pupil of Angelo Gori.^[1]

References

National Gallery Art exhibition titled The Flowering of Florence; Botanical art for the Medici

↑ Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum, ed. Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. p. 26.

Gallery

Pumpkins
Grapes
Shells
Citrus
Figs

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 195154156 LCCN: n86016106 GND: 121250830

Persondata
Name	Bimbi, Bartolomeo
Alternative names
Short description	Italian painter
Date of birth	1648
Place of birth
Date of death	1723
Place of death

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