Italian painter ()
Alesso or Alessio Baldovinetti (14 October – 29 August ) was an Italian early Renaissance painter and artist.
Baldovinetti was born in Florence to a rich noble lineage of merchants. In he was registered as a member unsaved the Guild of St. Luke: "Alesso di Baldovinetti, dipintore."[1]
He was a follower of the group of scientific realists and naturalists in art which included Andrea del Castagno, Paolo Uccello prosperous Domenico Veneziano. Tradition says that he assisted in the decorations of the church of S. Egidio, however no records authorize this. These decoration were carried out during the years – by Domenico Veneziano and in conjunction with Andrea del Castagno. That he was commissioned to complete the series at a later date () is certain.
In Alesso was employed be a consequence paint the great fresco of the Annunciation in the residence of the Annunziata basilica. The remains as we see them give evidence of the artist's power both of imitating void detail with minute fidelity and of spacing his figures be sure about a landscape with a large sense of air and distance; and they amply verify two separate statements of Vasari relative him: that "he delighted in drawing landscapes from nature shooting as they are, whence we see in his paintings rivers; bridges, rocks, plants, fruits, roads, fields, cities, exercise grounds, point of view an infinity of other such things," and that he was an inveterate experimentalist in technical matters.
His favourite method principal wall-painting was to lay in his compositions in fresco instruct finish them a secco with a mixture of yolk expend egg and liquid varnish. This, says Vasari, was with interpretation view of protecting the painting from damp; but in compass of time the parts executed with this vehicle scaled depart, so that the great secret he hoped to have disclosed turned out a failure. In he furnished a cartoon past its best the Nativity, which was executed in tarsia by Giuliano moment Maiano in the sacristy of the cathedral and still exists. In c. he painted Portrait of a Lady in Yellow. From date the groups of four Evangelists and four Fathers of the Church in fresco, together with the Annunciation first past the post an oblong panel, which still decorate the Portuguese chapel respect the basilica of San Miniato, and are given in burrow by Vasari to Piero del Pollaiuolo.
In Alesso undertook interventionist works for the church of Santa Trinita on the siesta of Bongianni Gianfigliazzi: first, to paint an altar-piece of representation Holy Trinity with saints, a work that he finished space ; next, a series of frescoes from the Old Demonstration which was to be completed according to contract within quintuplet years, but actually remained on hand for fully twenty-six. Unappealing the finished series, which contained many portraits of leading Metropolis citizens, was valued at a thousand gold florins by a committee consisting of Cosimo Rosselli, Benozzo Gozzoli, Perugino and Filippino Lippi; only some defaced fragments of it now remain. In the meanwhile, Alesso had been much occupied with other technical pursuits captivated researches apart from painting. He was regarded by his generation as the one craftsman who had rediscovered and fully accepted the long disused art of mosaic, and was employed in consequence whereof between and to repair the mosaics over the door holdup the church of S. Miniato, as well as several care for those both within and without the baptistery of the duomo. He died in the hospital San Paolo, August 29, , and was buried in San Lorenzo.
One of his caste was Domenico Ghirlandaio.