Tommaso da Modena

Tomaso Barisini, better known as Tommaso da Modena and sometimes called Tomaso Baffini (1326 – 1379) was an Italian painter of the mid-14th century.

Biography

Tommaso trained in Venice and worked mostly in Northern Italy, but also worked for the court of the Emperor Charles IV in Prague.

In Karlstein Castle, two pictures on wood are attributed to him, an ''Ecce Homo'' and a ''Madonna''. A ''St Catherine'' is in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice.

Perhaps Tommaso's most important work was done in Treviso.

In 1352 as an expression of the Dominican intellectual vocation Tommaso was commissioned to paint a fresco cycle of 40 Dominicans scholars at their desks including Popes, Cardinals, theologians, and philosophers. The work is in the chapter room of the former Dominican convent of San Nicolo' at Treviso, now a seminary. Among others, the cycle portrays Cardinal Annibale Annibaldi, Doctor of the Church Thomas Aquinas, Cardinal Hugh Aycelin, and Cardinal Latino Malabranca Orsini, all of whom were professors of the Dominican ''studium'' at Santa Sabina the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, ''Angelicum'', as well as Bishop and Doctor of the Church Albert the Great founder of the Dominican ''studium'' at Cologne, and renowned biblical commentator Cardinal Hugh of Saint-Cher. The portrait of Saint-Cher is the earliest known depiction of a person wearing spectacles.

A large early Renaissance fresco cycle in the church of Santa Margherita degli Eremitani was rescued from demolition in 1882. It was restored and is now on display in the Treviso Civic Museum. https://www.museicivicitreviso.it/it/le-collezioni/le-collezioni/il-ciclo-di-sant-orsola

(Treviso) Storie di sant'Orsola by Tommaso da Modena, Musei civici - The martyrdom.jpg, Stories of Saint Ursula - Martyrdom - Civic Museum, Treviso
(Treviso) Storie di sant'Orsola by Tommaso da Modena, Musei civici - Il sogno del Papa.jpg, stories of Saint Ursula - The Pope's dream - Civic Museum, Treviso
(Treviso) Storie di sant'Orsola by Tommaso da Modena, Musei civici - La navigazione verso Roma.jpg, stories of Saint Ursula - Navigation towards Rome - Civic Museum, Treviso
(Treviso) Storie di sant'Orsola by Tommaso da Modena, Musei civici - Incontro di Orsola con il Papa a Roma.jpg, Stories of Saint Ursula - Ursula's meeting with the Pope in Rome - Civic Museum, Treviso
(Treviso) Storie di sant'Orsola by Tommaso da Modena, Musei civici - L'abdicazione del Papa.jpg, Stories of Saint Ursula - The abdication of the Pope - Civic Museum, Treviso
(Treviso) Storie di sant'Orsola by Tommaso da Modena, Musei civici - Commiato di Orsola dalla madre.jpg, ''Stories of Saint Ursula'' - Orsola's farewell to her mother - Civic Museum, Treviso
(Treviso) Storie di sant'Orsola by Tommaso da Modena, Musei civici - Battesimo del principe d'Inghilterra.jpg, Stories of Saint Ursula - Baptism of the Prince of England - Civic Museum, Treviso
(Treviso) Storie di sant'Orsola by Tommaso da Modena, Musei civici - L'invio degli ambasciatori del re d'Inghilterra.jpg, Stories of Saint Ursula - The sending of the ambassadors of the King of England - Civic Museum, Treviso
(Treviso) Storie di sant'Orsola by Tommaso da Modena, Musei civici - Gli ambasciatori inglesi presso il re di Bretagna.jpg, Stories of Saint Ursula - The English ambassadors to the King of Brittany - Civic Museum, Treviso
(Treviso) Storie di sant'Orsola by Tommaso da Modena, Musei civici - La partenza da Roma.jpg, Stories of Saint Ursula - The departure from Rome - Civic Museum, Treviso

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14th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Venice
Painters from Modena
Year of death missing
Year of birth missing

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