Bartolommeo Salvestrini

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Bartolommeo Salvestrini (died Florence 1630) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mostly in Florence. He was a pupil of Matteo Rosselli and Giovanni Bilivert in Florence.[1] He painted a Martyrdom of St Ursula for church of Santa Orsula in Florence, as well as paintings for the church of Santa Teresa. He died of the plague in 1630. A drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago is attributed to the painter[2]

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  • Boni, Filippo de' (1852). Biografia degli artisti ovvero dizionario della vita e delle opere dei pittori, degli scultori, degli intagliatori, dei tipografi e dei musici di ogni nazione che fiorirono da'tempi più remoti sino á nostri giorni. Seconda Edizione.. Venice; Googlebooks: Presso Andrea Santini e Figlio. pp. 640–641.
  1. ^ Boni F. Page 908
  2. ^ Hercules and Hesione attributed c. 1600 to c. 1633