Bartolomeo Ghetti
Bartolomeo (or Baccio) di Zanobi Ghetti (died 1536) was a Florentine Renaissance painter who has only recently emerged from obscurity as a result of art historical research.
Our knowledge of Ghetti’s career rests chiefly on a brief notice by Vasari, a few mentions in documents, and half a dozen jewel-like, painstakingly finished paintings. Vasari briefly mentions Ghetti, whom he calls "Baccio Gotti" in the Lives, describing him as a pupil of Ghirlandaio and stating that he worked in France at the court of King Francois I.
No works by Ghetti were known until the publication, in 2003, of documents showing that the artist had painted and restored a number of works for the church of San Pietro a Selva, near Malmantile in the lower Arno valley. The only sixteenth-century painting in the church is a frescoed lunette depicting the Madonna and Child. Waldman (2003) identified this painting as a work by the Master of the Copenhagen Charity, an anonymous artist influenced by Ghirlandaio (the name came from his most beautiful work, an allegory of Charity now in the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen). The conjunction of the painting and the document led to the identification of the Master of the Copenhagen Charity as Bartolomeo Ghetti.
Read more about Bartolomeo Ghetti: Career in France and Florence, Work As Manuscript Illuminator in France, Works in Fucecchio, Missing Virgin and Child With St. John, Select Bibliography