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Andrea del Sarto

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Name: Andrea del Sarto
Birth Date: July 16, 1486
Death Date: September 29, 1530
Place of Birth: Florence, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: painter, artist

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Biography of Andrea del Sarto
913 words, approx. 3 pages
The Italian painter Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) was one of the most important painters of the High Renaissance. His highly expressive use of color is unsurpassed in Florentine painting. With Michelangelo and Raphael working in Rome, Andrea del Sarto...


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Andrea Del Sarto
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(born July 16, 1486, Florence [Italy]—died before Sept. 29, 1530, Florence) Italian painter active in Florence. After an apprenticeship with Piero di Cosimo, he became established as one of the outstanding painters of Florence, most notably as a...
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Andrea del Sarto Information
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Andrea del Sarto (1486 – 1531) was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early-Mannerism. Though highly regarded by his contemporaries as an artist "senza errori" (i.e., faultless), he is...


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Apollo
Andrea del Sarto's monsters: the Madonna of the Harpies and human-animal hybrids in the renaissance.(artists)
07/01/2004: 6,362 words, approx. 21 pages
The mysterious monsters who lurk beneath the pedestal of the Virgin in Andrea del Sarto's Madonna of the Harpies have been variously interpreted--as sphinxes and locusts as well as harpies. Simona Cohen argues that they are embodiments of Original Sin, and explains why...
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The Boston Globe
`buried' Madonna Is An Original Del Sarto
01/23/2000: 893 words, approx. 3 pages
For more than 30 years a large oil painting of the Madonna and Child lay face down and forgotten in the attic of the rectory at All Saints' Episcopal Church in West Newbury. Then, in 1986 when the Rev. James Gurley came to...
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AP Features
U.S. museum loans masterpieces to new showcase
3/30/2007: 338 words, approx. 1 pages
A new museum devoted to Jewish heritage has been thrust into the art world spotlight with loaned works by Rembrandt, El Greco, Rubens and others while the Cleveland Museum of Art undergoes renovation.The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, which opened in 2005, has presented well-regarded...
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The New York Observer
SoHo Museum Flees Yuppies, as the Met Goes For Baroque
9/18/2007: 663 words, approx. 2 pages
A few years back, Robert Hughes, former art critic for Time magazine and Goya biographer, wrote that sculptor Martin Puryear (b. 1941) was America’s greatest living artist, and damned if Mr. Hughes wasn’t close to the mark. New Yorkers will get an opportunity to make...
 


 

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