Tommaso da Modena (1326 – 1379) 

• Also known as Tomaso Barisini.
• Was an Italian painter of the mid-14th century.
• Tommaso trained in Venice and worked mostly in Northern Italy.

• Also he worked for the court of the Emperor Charles IV in Prague. 

• In Karlštejn Castle, Czech Republic, two pictures on wood are attributed to him.

• 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.

• The portrait of Saint-Cher is the earliest known depiction of a person wearing spectacles.

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