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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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”
Raphael (1483–1520): Drawings for the Vault of the Stanza di Eliodoro
The drawings considered here converge around Raphael’s decoration of the vault of the Stanza di Eliodoro. Their significance lies not only in the light they cast on the completed frescoes, but also in what they reveal about Raphael’s working practice, his movement between projects, his responsiveness to different visual sources and his adaptation of drawingContinue reading “Raphael (1483–1520): Drawings for the Vault of the Stanza di Eliodoro”
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.”
