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1 Early life and training  





2 Frescoes at SS Annunziata in Florence  





3 Visit to France  





4 Later works in Florence  



4.1  Madonna of the Harpies  







5 Personal life  





6 Critical assessment and legacy  





7 Partial anthology of works  





8 See also  





9 Notes  





10 References  





11 External links  














Andrea del Sarto






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Andrea del Sarto
Self-portrait
Born

Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco di Luca


(1486-07-16)16 July 1486 Florence, Republic of Florence (present-day Italy)
Diedbefore 29 September 1530(1530-09-29) (aged 44)
Florence, Republic of Florence (present-day Italy)
NationalityTuscan
Italian
Known forPainting
Notable workMadonna of the Harpies
Nativity of the Virgin
MovementHigh Renaissance
Mannerism

Andrea del Sarto (US: /ɑːnˌdrə dɛl ˈsɑːrt/, UK: /ænˌ-/, Italian: [anˈdrɛːa del ˈsarto]; 16 July 1486 – 29 September 1530) was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism. He was known as an outstanding fresco decorator, painter of altar-pieces, portraitist, draughtsman, and colorist.[1] Although highly regarded during his lifetime as an artist senza errori ("without errors"), his renown was eclipsed after his death by that of his contemporaries Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.

Early life and training[edit]

The house of Andrea del Sarto

Andrea del Sarto was born Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco di Luca[2]inFlorence on 16 July 1486. Since his father, Agnolo, was a tailor (Italian: sarto), he became known as "del Sarto" (meaning "tailor's son").[3] Since 1677 some have attributed the surname Vannucchi with little documentation.

By 1494, Andrea was apprenticed to a goldsmith, and then to a woodcarver and painter named Gian Barile, with whom he remained until 1498.[4] According to his late biographer Vasari, he then apprenticed to Piero di Cosimo, and later with Raffaellino del Garbo (Carli).

Andrea and an older friend, Franciabigio, decided to open a joint studio at a lodging together in the Piazza del Grano. The first product of their partnership may have been the Baptism of Christ for the Florentine Compagnia dello Scalzo, the beginning of a monochrome fresco series.[4] By the time the partnership was dissolved, Sarto's style bore the stamp of individuality. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, it "is marked throughout his career by an interest, exceptional among Florentines, in effects of colour and atmosphere and by sophisticated informality and natural expression of emotion".[5]

Birth of the Virgin (detail), 1509–10, SS Annunziata, Chiostrino dei Voti, Florence
Andrea del Sarto, S Filippo Benizi's Death and Child restored to Life (detail), 1509f, SS Annunziata, Chiostrino dei Voti, Florence

Frescoes at SS Annunziata in Florence[edit]

From 1509 to 1514 the Servite Order employed Del Sarto, Franciabigio, and Andrea Feltrini in a programme of frescoesatBasilica della Santissima Annunziata di Firenze.[6] Sarto completed seven frescoes in the forecourt or atrium (the chiostro dei voti) before the Servite church, five of which illustrated the Life and miracles of Filippo Benizzi,[7] a Servite saint who died in 1285 (canonized 1671). He executed them rapidly, depicting the saint healing a leper through the gift of his undertunic; predicting the bad end of some blasphemers; and restoring a girl possessed with a devil. The two final frescoes of the series depicted the healing of a child at the death bed of Filippo Benizzi and the curing of sick adults and children through his relic garment held at the church. All five frescoes were completed before the close of 1510.[3] The original contract also required him to paint five scenes of the life and miracles of St. Sebastian, but he told the Servites that he no longer wished to continue with the second cycle, most likely due to the low remuneration. The Servites convinced him to do two more frescoes in the forecourt, although of a different subject matter: a Procession of the Magi (containing a self-portrait) finished in 1511 and a Nativity of the Virgin. These paintings met with respect, the correctness of the contours being particularly admired, and earned for Sarto the nickname of "Andrea senza errori" (Andrea the perfect). Toward 1512 he painted an (San Gallo Annunciation) Annunciation in the Church of San Gallo and a Marriage of Saint Catherine (Dresden).

By 1514, Andrea had finished his last two frescoes in the Chiostro dei Voti (SS. Annunziata), including his masterpiece, the Nativity of the Virgin, which fuses the influence of Leonardo, Ghirlandaio, and Fra Bartolomeo.[8] By November 1515 he had finished at the nearby Chiostro of the Confraternity of St. John the Baptist, commonly known as the Scalzo the Allegory of Justice and the Baptist preaching in the desert, followed in 1517 by John Baptizing the People.[3]

Visit to France[edit]

Del Sarto's most ambitious monument, in terms of the amount of time he devoted to it, is the grisaille series in the Chiostro dello Scalzo.

Before the end of 1516, a Pietà of Del Sarto's composition, and afterward a Madonna, were sent to the French Court. This led to an invitation from François I, in 1518, and he journeyed to Paris in June of that year, along with his pupil Andrea Squarzzella, leaving his wife, Lucrezia, in Florence.[9]

According to Giorgio Vasari, Andrea's pupil and biographer,[10] Lucrezia wrote to Andrea and demanded he return to Italy. The king assented, but only on the understanding that his absence from France was to be short. He then entrusted Andrea with a sum of money to be expended in purchasing works of art for the French Court. By Vasari's account, Andrea took the money and used it instead to buy a house in Florence, thus ruining his reputation and preventing him from ever returning to France.[9] The story inspired Robert Browning's poem-monologue "Andrea del Sarto Called the 'Faultless Painter'" (1855),[11] but now is dismissed by some historians as apocryphal, untrue although oft-repeated.[12]

Later works in Florence[edit]

Assumption of the Virgin (Poppi Altarpiece), 1530
Head of Saint John the Baptist, c. 1523, National Gallery of Art

He resumed work in Florence during 1520 and executed the Faith and Charity in the cloister of the Scalzo. These were succeeded by the Dance of the Daughter of Herodias, the Beheading of the Baptist, the Presentation of his head to Herod, an allegory of Hope, the Apparition of the Angel to Zacharias (1523) and the monochrome Visitation. This last was painted in the autumn of 1524, after Andrea had returned from Luco in Mugello, whence an outbreak of bubonic plague in Florence had driven him and his family. In 1525, he returned to paint in the Annunziata cloister the Madonna del Sacco, a lunette named after a sack against which Joseph is represented propped.[9] In this painting the generous virgin's gown and her gaze indicate his influence on the early style of pupil Pontormo.

In 1523, Andrea painted a copy of the portrait group of Pope Leo X by Raphael; this copy is now in the Museo di CapodimonteinNaples, while the original remains at the Pitti Palace. The Raphael painting was owned by Ottaviano de' Medici, and requested by Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua. Unwilling to part with the original, Ottaviano retained Andrea to produce a copy, which he passed to the Duke as the original. The imitation was so faithful that even Giulio Romano, who had himself manipulated the original to some extent, was completely fooled; and, on showing the copy years afterwards to Vasari, who knew the truth, he could be convinced that it was not genuine only when a private mark on the canvas was pointed out to him by Vasari.[9]

Andrea's final work at the Scalzo was the Nativity of the Baptist (1526). In the following year he completed his last important painting, a Last SupperatSan Salvi (now an inner suburb of Florence), in which all the characters appear to be portraits.[9] The church is now the Museo del Cenacolo di Andrea del Sarto.

A number of his paintings were considered to be self-portraits. Formerly, a Portrait of a Young Man in the National Gallery, London was believed to be a self-portrait,[13] as was the Portrait of Becuccio Bicchieraio in National Gallery of Scotland,[14] but now both are known not to be self-portraits. There is a self-portrait at Alnwick Castle, a young man about twenty years of age with his elbow on a table. Another youthful portrait is in the Uffizi Gallery and the Pitti Palace contains more than one.[9]

Madonna of the Harpies[edit]

The Madonna of the Harpies, 1517

The Madonna of the Harpies is a depiction of the Virgin and child on a pedestal, flanked by two saints (Bonaventure or Francis and John the Evangelist), and at her feet, two cherubs. The pedestal is decorated with a relief depicting some feminine figures interpreted as harpies and thus gave rise, in English, to the name of the painting. Originally completed in 1517 for the convent of San Francesco dei Macci, the altarpiece now resides in the Uffizi. In an Italy swamped with a tsunami of Madonnas, it would be easy to overlook this work; however, this commonly copied scheme also lends itself to comparison of his style with that of his contemporaries. The figures have a Leonardo da Vinci-like aura, and the stable pyramid of their composition provides a unified structure. In some ways, his rigid adherence is more classical than Leonardo da Vinci's but less so than Fra Bartolomeo's representations of the Holy Family.

Pietà with Saints, 1523–24

Personal life[edit]

Andrea married Lucrezia (del Fede), the widow of a hatter named Carlo, of Recanati, on 26 December 1512. Lucrezia appears in many of his paintings, often as a Madonna. Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) describes her as "faithless, jealous, and vixenish with the apprentices".[10] She is similarly characterized in Robert Browning's poem.

Andrea died in Florence at age 44 during an outbreak of Bubonic Plague at the end of September 1530. He was buried unceremoniously by the Misericordia in the church of the Servites.[15]InLives of the Artists, Vasari claimed Andrea received no attention at all from his wife during his terminal illness.[10] However, it was well known at the time that plague was highly contagious, so it has been speculated that Lucrezia might have been afraid of contracting the virulent and frequently-fatal disease. If true, this well-founded caution was rewarded, as she survived her husband by 40 years.[16]

Critical assessment and legacy[edit]

Said to have thought very highly of Andrea's talents, Michelangelo introduced thirteen-year-old Vasari to Andrea's studio in 1524.[9] Of those who initially followed Andrea's style in Florence, the most prominent would be Jacopo Pontormo, along with Rosso Fiorentino, Francesco Salviati, and Jacopino del Conte. Other lesser known assistants and pupils include Bernardo del Buda, Lamberto Lombardi, Nannuccio Fiorentino, and Andrea Squazzella.[17] Vasari, however, was highly critical of his teacher, alleging that, although having all the prerequisites of a great artist, he lacked ambition and a divine fire of inspiration that animated the works of his more famous contemporaries: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.

On 21 November 1848, the play Andre del Sarto, by Alfred de Musset, premiered in Paris.

In 1968, the opera Andrea del Sarto by French composer Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur was based on Alfred de Musset's 1848 play.

Partial anthology of works[edit]

Portrait of a Man, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The so-called Portrait of a Sculptor, long believed to have been Del Sarto's self-portrait. National Gallery

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Norwich, John Julius (1990). Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia Of The Arts. USA: Oxford University Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-0198691372.
  • ^ Nesi, Alessandro. "Ser Spillo: Fratello di Andrea del Sarto". Maniera. 2016: 2 – via Accademia.
  • ^ a b c Shearman, John (1965). Andrea del Sarto. Oxford.
  • ^ a b Rossetti 1911, p. 969.
  • ^ "Encyclopædia Britannica". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2019-07-11.
  • ^ "mega.it". mega.it. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
  • ^ [1] Archived February 4, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  • ^ "Compare it to Ghirlandaio's Quattrocento treatment". Wga.hu. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
  • ^ a b c d e f g Rossetti 1911, p. 970.
  • ^ a b c Vasari, Giorgio. The Lives of the Artists. Oxford University Press, USA; Reissue edition (December 15, 2008). ISBN 0-19-953719-4
  • ^ "Stonehill". Faculty.stonehill.edu. Archived from the original on 2012-11-20. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
  • ^ University of Toronto Library Archived January 4, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  • ^ "National Gallery website". Nationalgallery.org.uk. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
  • ^ National Gallery of Scotland website Archived June 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  • ^ O'Brien, Alana. "Andrea del Sarto and the Compagnia dello Scalzo". Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz. XLVIII (2004): 258–267, 262 – via JSTOR ACADEMIA.
  • ^ Cole, Thomas B. Andrea del Sarto fingers. Journal of the American Medical Association, August 25, 2010, Vol. 304, No. 8, p. 833.
  • ^ J.R. Hobbes p. 258-9.
  • ^ "Welcome to". Nelepets.com. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
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