Vitale da Bologna

Surviving works in Bologna include a polyptych in the church of San Salvatore (1353); fresco fragments in the right apsidal chapel of Santa Maria dei Servi; and a fresco of Madonna and Child in San Michele dei Leprosetti. Vitale was also active in Pomposa, where he painted the frescoes in the apse of the Pomposa Abbey in Ferrara, completing a set of now-lost statues for Ferrara Cathedral and a confraternity altarpiece now in the Vatican Museums, and in Udine, where he was called to work for the Patriarch of Aquileia, Bertrand de Saint Geniès. In Udine, he painted a fresco cycle for the main chapel of the Duomo, as well as frescoes in the adjacent confraternity chapel of St Nicholas. He is last registered in Bologna in 1359 and is thought to have died in December of that year or early 1360. His masterwork is the panel with St. George and the Dragon, held in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. Also notable is the Madonna dei Denti ("Madonna of the Teeth", signed and dated 1345), in the Davia-Bargellini Museum in Bologna. Universally attributed to him are the large Nativity fresco originally from the confraternity church of Santa Maria della Mezzaratta in the Bolognese countryside, now detached and conserved in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, and the fresco known as the Madonna del Ricamo ("Embroidering Madonna"), originally from San Francesco, Bologna, and now in deposit at the Museo della Storia di Bologna.

The recorded working language is Italian. Places of work recorded in the authority are Bologna. Works named in the authority record are The Coronation of the Virgin, Saint George and the Dragon, Coronation of the Virgin Polyptych, Madonna del Ricamo and Stories of St Anthony the Abbot. Work by Vitale da Bologna is recorded in the collections of Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Davia Bargellini Museum, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, National Galleries Scotland and Palazzo Fava.