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Bartolomeo Bimbi, born in Settignano on 15 May 1648 and died on 14 January 1729, entered the workshop of Lorenzo Lippi at the age of thirteen, where he remained until the master's death. After a trip to Rome with Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici on the occasion of the conclave from which Pope Clement X emerged in 1670, he began working for the court and the Florentine aristocracy.
The painter is mainly known for depicting "didactic" and "portraiture" still lifes, fruit and animals but also portraits. Read the full biography

Bartolomeo Bimbi, born in Settignano on 15 May 1648 and died on 14 January 1729, entered the workshop of Lorenzo Lippi at the age of thirteen, where he remained until the master's death. After a trip to Rome with Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici on the occasion of the conclave from which Pope Clement X emerged in 1670, he began working for the court and the Florentine aristocracy.
The painter is mainly known for depicting "didactic" and "portraiture" still lifes, fruit and animals but also portraits. A singular testimony to the scientific interest of the Medici, Bimbi paints in life-size disproportionate fruits, two-headed animals brought by farmers to the Grand Duke, migratory birds blocked by the intense cold in the Pisan marshes, a large wolf killed in Mugello, a restless ocelot reported by an explorer and exhibited in the Boboli Gardens.
Bimbi died in Florence on 14 January 1729.
The exhibition "La natura morta italiana" (1964-1965, Naples, Zurich, Rotterdam) made it possible to discover many other paintings by Bimbi, testifying to both the painter's earliest and later activity.