Florence, the Macchiaioli and the problem of belonging Silvestro Lega belongs securely to the history of the Macchiaioli, but not quite comfortably to any shorthand definition of them. That is partly because the Macchiaioli themselves were never a school in the strict sense. They were a loose and sometimes fractious constellation of painters, critics andContinue reading “Silvestro Lega: Places, People and Ways of Painting”
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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”
