The High Renaissance
 
&

Mannerism

 

Andrea del Sarto

(b Florence, 16 July 1486; d Florence, 29 Sept 1530).

Italian painter and draughtsman. He was the leading painter in Florence in the early years of the 16th century, and, under the influence of Leonardo da Vinci, Fra Bartolommeo, Michelangelo and Raphael, he elaborated and perfected the classical style of the High Renaissance. In the second decade of the 16th century his art anticipated aspects of Mannerism, while his direct, immediate works of the 1520s became important models for the more naturalistic Tuscan artists of the Counter-Reformation. He painted mainly religious works, including both altarpieces and major cycles of frescoes. His portraits, distinguished by a dreamily poetic quality, are among the most individual of the High Renaissance.

  
       

St John the Baptist
1528
Oil on wood, 94 x 68 cm
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence
 

The Holy Family with the Infant St. John
1530
oil on panel
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York