Before France Andrea del Sarto’s journey to France in 1518 has acquired a special place in accounts of his career. John Shearman treated that year as the beginning of Andrea’s ‘heroic period’, while Jan Sammer’s recent reconstruction of the painter’s movements has given the French episode a much firmer documentary basis than it previously possessed.Continue reading “Andrea del Sarto and the French Court: Leonardo, Raphael and Visual Legacy”
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Andrea del Sarto and the Pala di Gambassi: Painting, Friendship and Patronage
A late altarpiece Andrea del Sarto’s Madonna and Child with Saints Onofrio, Lawrence, John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, Roch and Sebastian, generally known as the Pala di Gambassi, belongs to the last years of a career that had placed him at the centre of Florentine painting. Now in the Galleria Palatina at Palazzo Pitti, theContinue reading “Andrea del Sarto and the Pala di Gambassi: Painting, Friendship and Patronage”
Dosso Dossi (1486?-1542): Apollo, Fantasia and Form.
Dosso Dossi, Apollo (c. 1524–1525), oil on canvas, 191 × 116 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome. “Dosso also knew how to add to his interpretations a certain wit, a sense of contrast, a boldness, that has led him to be associated with Ariosto and the Orlando Furioso. But his visions—enchanted and mysterious, dense with necromantic smoke—’are less aContinue reading “Dosso Dossi (1486?-1542): Apollo, Fantasia and Form.”
