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”
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Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1499–1543): Studies for an Annunciation
Two small roundels, the Angelo annunciante and the Vergine annunciata, painted in Naples in 1527–28 and now in the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, are closely connected with a double-sided sheet of red-chalk studies of approximately the same date, now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Together, the drawings and paintings offer an unusually concentratedContinue reading “Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1499–1543): Studies for an Annunciation”
