Fra Paolino

1490 – 1547

Italian painter (originally Paolo di Bernardino del Signoraccio). He was the son of Bernardino del Signoraccio, a minor Pistoian painter. In 1503, he entered the Dominican order in the convent of San Domenico in Pistoia which was very close to the ideas of Savonarola. In 1509 he moved to Florence and entered the studio of San Marco, then directed by Fra Bartolomeo. He is recorded in 1513 as a monk of the Dominican convent of San Marco in Florence. In that year he made two clay statues of St Dominic and St Mary Magdalene (both untraced) that in 1516 were placed in Santa Maria Maddalena in Pian di Mugnone. In 1526 Fra Paolino moved his shop to the Convent of San Domenico in Pistoia. The shop ceased to operate with his death.

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