Bonaventura Berlinghieri

Bonaventura Berlinghieri or Bonaventura Berlinghiero (1215 - after 1274) is an Italian painter Gothic 13th century.

Biography

He is the son of Berlinghiero Berlinghieri and works with his father and his brother Barone Berlinghieri and Marco in their common workshop of the Berlinghieri, which complicates precise attributions.

In the result of their art, medieval, they produce many crucifixes according to the iconography of the Christ living , the open eyes.

Bonaventura is documented between 1228 and 1274 with Lucques and is compared to the school florentine.

Among its works, is to be noticed its Saint François and six episodes of his life retable on wood with the church San Francesco of Pescia. It is surely about the first representation of the saint, represented upright in foot in all the height of the table, in a hieratic and frontal installation, with some episodes hagiographic, nine years only after the death of the saint.

Works

San Francesco E storie beyond sweated vita (1235), church San Francesco, Pescia
Crucifix franciscain, resulting from Volterra, acquired by the Calvet museum of Avignon, exposed to the museum of the small palace
Crucifix art gallery of Lucques, probably of the father
Crucifix, palazzo Venezia, Rome
Annonciation , coloured mosaic, San Frediano Lucques

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