Bartolomeo Bulgarini, active (1337–78),

• Also known as Bulgarino or Bologhini, was an Italian painter of the Trecento period in Siena.
•Born into a noble family with several members being elected to the Council of Nine, Siena’s central governing body.
• With his contemporaries, Simone Martini, Pietro Lorenzetti and Ambrogio Lorenzetti and others he is part of the generations following Duccio.
• San Pietro a Ovile was the parish church in the district where Bulgarini and his wife lived for most of their married life.
• The only known autographed work by Bulgarini is the St. Victor altarpiece in Siena Cathedral.
• Bulgarini was almost exclusively a panel painter, which is rare among 14th century Sienese painters.
• The earliest mention of Bulgarini is in 1338 for a payment made for painting the cover of the Biccherna, the book containing the financial transactions for the Commune starting in the thirteenth century until the fifteenth century.
• He entered the workshop of Pietro Lorenzetti as an apprentice or assistant.
• In 1341 and 1342 he was commissioned for two more covers for consecutive seasons.
• His career, starting roughly in the 1330s, lasted into the 1370s.
• The earliest of his surviving works is the triptych with Saints Ansanus and Galganus painted circa 1339 for the Palazzo Pubblico.
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