# BARTOLO DI FREDI [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1330–1410 - Profession: painter - School: Italian ## Biography Sienese painter, pupil of Ambrogio Lorenzetti. His best two fresco cycles are at S. Gimignano, one dealing with Old Testament subjects in the Collegiata \(1356\) and one in the church of S. Agostino on the birth and death of the Virgin \(1366\). He was the most successful Sienese painter of the later fourteenth century. He shared a workshop with Andrea Vanni, and produced a large number of altarpieces and frescoes, and, in addition, collaborated with other artists on mural and altarpiece paintings and polychrome sculptures. He worked on many of his most important commissions with his son, Andrea di Bartolo. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation]() - [Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Scenes from the Old Testament]() - [St Anthony Abbot]() - [St John the Evangelist]() - [St Lawrence]() - [The Adoration of the Magi]() - [The Annunciation to Joachim]() - [The Coronation of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [The Coronation of the Virgin]() - [The Presentation in the Temple]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()