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Del Sarto, Andrea
Nationality: Italian and Florentine
Lifespan: (1487-1531)
This celebrated painter of the Florentine school was born in Gualfonda, Florence, in
1487, or perhaps 1486.
Andrea had true pictorial style, a very high standard of correctness and an enviable balance of executive endowments.
The point of technique in which he excelled least was perhaps that of discriminating the varying textures of different objects and surfaces. There is not much elevation or ideality in his works--much more of reality. His chiaroscuro is
not carried out according to strict rule, but is adjusted to his liking for harmony of colour and fused tone and transparence; in fresco more especially his predilection for varied tints appears excessive. It may be broadly said
that his taste in colouring was derived mainly from Fra Bartolommeo, and in form from Michelangelo; and his style partakes of the Venetian and Lombard, as well as the Florentine
and Roman--some of his figures are even adapted from Albert Durer. In one way or other he continued improving to the last. In drawing from nature, his habit was to sketch very
slightly, making only such a memorandum as sufficed to work from. The scholars of Andrea were very numerous; but, according
to Vasari, they were not wont to stay long, being domineered over by his wife; Pontormo and Domenico Puligo may be mentioned.
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References: http://www.gutenberg.org
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