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Italian painter
Tomaso Barisini
, better known as
Tommaso da Modena
[1]
and sometimes called
Tomaso Baffini
[2]
(1326 ? 1379) was an Italian painter of the mid-14th century.
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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
.
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