BALDOVINETTI Alessio (Baldovinetti Alesso)

(ca. 1425-1499)
The representative of the Florentine school. Pupil of Domenico Veneziano and teacher Ghirlandaio. Baldovinetti a lot of experimenting with the technique of painting: tempera tried to replace the traditional fresco technique, . write glaze on the golden ground, . invent new ways of priming the canvas and boards, . inventing new methods of constructing songs,
. In his works collectively to model the shape delineated by sharp contours, the direction of each line is subject to rhythmic structure of the entire composition, color contrast and placed in a strict systematic manner, unusual for 15 per.
Alessio Baldovinetti born c.. 1425 Florence. In 1454 he worked together with Andrea del Castagno, and in 1460 completed the unfinished frescoes by Domenico Veneziano in the church of Sant 'Egidio in Florence (not preserved). From 1481 to 1495 was occupied mainly the restoration of Roman mosaics in the Baptistery of San Giovanni and the Church of San Miniato al Monte in Florence. His hands also belong Annunciation (c.. 1453, Washington, National Gallery) Annunciation (c.. 1458, Uffizi), Christmas (1460-1461, Florence, Church of Santissima Annunziata), Madonna (Louvre) and Portrait of a Woman (London, National Gallery) (the latter two works are carried out in 1464-1465). Baldovinetti died in Florence in 1499.