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Tommaso Portinari

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Italian banker for the Medici bank in Bruges

Lived 1427 to 1501 · aged 74
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Tommaso Portinari was an Italian banker for the Medici bank in Bruges. He was a member of a prominent Florentine family, coming from Portico di Romagna, near Forlì; that family had included Dante's muse, Beatrice Portinari.

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Tommaso Portinari, detail of Portinari Triptych by Hugo van der GoesTommaso Portinari, detail of Portinari Triptych by Hugo van der GoesHans Memling's c.1470 Portrait of Tommaso Portinari and Portrait of Maria PortinariHans Memling's c.1470 Portrait of Tommaso Portinari and Portrait of Maria PortinariSpeculative reconstruction of the 1470 Portinari triptychSpeculative reconstruction of the 1470 Portinari triptych

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Tommaso Portinari was an Italian banker for the Medici bank in Bruges. He was a member of a prominent Florentine family, coming from Portico di Romagna, near Forlì; that family had included Dante's muse, Beatrice Portinari. His father was a Medici branch manager, and after his death in 1421, Tommaso and his orphaned brothers were taken in and raised in the household of Cosimo de' Medici. Today he is mainly remembered for two significant commissions of Early Netherlandish paintings.

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Lived 1427 to 1501 · aged 74
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