1526
oil
panel
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Domenico da Gambassi is a 1526 oil by Andrea del Sarto, a High Renaissance work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
You see a casually posed portrait of a man, Domenico da Gambassi. This portrait was part of a larger altarpiece, which is interesting because it shows how artists used to create multiple paintings for one project. The strapwork around the portrait is also notable, as it was once part of a decorative pattern. Check out the work of artist Andrea del Sarto to learn more about this style.
This casually posed and loosely rendered portrait originally made up part of the lower section, or predella, of an altarpiece for a church in Gambassi, near Florence. The images of the patron, Domenico, and his wife, Lucrezia , flanked additional, now-lost works. The painted strapwork around the portraits, discovered during recent conservation treatment, once formed part of a decorative pattern that would have extended throughout the predella; it indicates how all the individual paintings were interconnected. Andrea del Sarto added highlights at the bottom of each roundel, mimicking the…
Probably incorporated into the Gambassi altarpiece, Church of Santi Lorenzo e Onofrio, Benedictine Convent of the Romite, Gambassi (near Volterra), by 1525/28 to no later than 1637 [see Lloyd 1993]. Probably Medici Collection, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, by 1637 [see Conti 1983–84, pp. 162–63]. Possibly Leopold de’Medici (died 1675), Villa del Poggio Imperiale, Florence, by 1655 [Trkulja 1976, p. 12 suggested that they could be identified with entries in the inventories of 1655 and 1692: Due quadretti in tavola, alti s. 7 lari 1/4 dipintovj in tondo di mano d’Andrea del Sarto, in uno il Suo…
Florence, Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Vecchio: Committenza e collezionismo medicei, 1980, nos. 360–61.
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Andrea del Sarto was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism.
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