BARTOLINI, LORENZO, a celebrated Italian sculptor, was b. at Vernio, in the n. of Tuscany, in 1777. Circumstances brought him to Paris while still a young man, where he practiced his art for some time with very little pecuniary success: but at length, having obtained an academy prize for a bass-relief of Cleobis and Biton, he was suddenly ushered into notice and prosperity. Several influential persons patronized him, such as Denon and Regnauld de St. Jean d'Angely. Through the first, he obtained a commis. slot) to execute one of the bass-reliefs in the hall of the Vendome palace, and also the bust of Napoleon over the door of the institute of France. Napoleon himself gave him a multitude of orders, many of which, unfortunately, were never executed. In 1808, the emperor sent him to Carrara, to establish a school of sculpture. Here he remained till 1814, when be accompanied his imperial master to Elba. After the battle of Waterloo, he repaired to Florence, where he was subsequently appointed director of flat sculpture department in the academy of the fine arts, an office be retained till hia death in 1850. Bartolini WM a very prolific artist. Besides the works already mentioned.
Bartolini executed busts of Cherubmi, Mehid. Madame Regnauld, a magnificent statue of Napoleon I. (now in America). several exquisite sepulchral monuments, such RS that of lady Stratford Canning in the cathedral of Lausanne, and various groups, the most cele brated of which are his " Charity," and "Hercules and Lycus." In England and France, his style is in general greatly esteemed;. in Germany, it is less highly thought of. His fig.. tires are characterized by their truthfulness of proportion and classic repose, though they also possess a remarkably life-like expression. After Canova, Bartolmi is reckoned the. most distinguished Italian sculptor of modern times.
k BARTOW, or BAR'TOLI. TADDEO nr, 1300-1414; an Italian painter whose works are found at Padua, Pisa, and Volterra, with some remarkable frescoes in the chapel of the plaza at Sienna.
SAN, a t. of Italy, in the province of Benevento, with a pop. of 5400. TARTOLOMME'0, FitA. Sec Baccto DI LLA PORTA, ante.