Our Lady of the Assumption with Sts Miniato and Julian (1450) Panel, 150 x 158 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Andrea del Castagno (c.1421 - 1457) was a Florentine painter. His works include The Last Supper and frescoes in S. Apollonia in Florence and a painted equestrian monument of Niccolò da Tolentino (1456) in the Cathedral in Florence.
Vasari alleged that Castagno murdered Domenico Veneziano, although this seems rather unlikely, given that Veneziano died in 1461, four years after Castagno died of the plague.
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Fresco of Giovanni Boccaccio (http://www.uffizi.firenze.it/Dipinti/castboccaulE.html) (1450)
Fresco of Pippo Spano (http://www.uffizi.firenze.it/Dipinti/castaspanoaulE.html) (1450)
AndreadelCastagno (originally Andrea di Bartolodi Bargilla), one of the most influential 15th-century Italian Renaissance painters, best known for the emotional power and naturalistic treatment of figures in his work.
Little is known of Castagno's early life, and it is also difficult to ascertain the stages of his artistic development owing to the loss of many of his paintings.
Castagno's emotionally expressive realism was strongly influenced by Donatello, and Castagno's work in turn influenced succeeding generations of Florentine and Paduan painters.
Andreadel Sarto completò il suo capolavoro, l'affresco dell'Ultima Cena, nel 1527 nel convento valambrosiano di San Salvi, a quel tempo fuori mura.
Andreadel Sarto completed his fresco masterpiece, the Last Supper, in 1527 in the Valambrosian convent of San Salvi, then outside the city walls.
Giorgio Vasari definì del Sarto "il pittore senza errori, impeccabile nel progetto, un perfetto disegnatore dall'equilibrio squisito." Rimarcando i limiti del provincialismo toscano del tempo, lo storico dell'arte Antonio Paolucci scrive che se Andreadel Sarto si fosse trasferito a Roma sarebbe stato non meno grande di Raffaello.
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