1526
oil
panel
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Lucrezia di Lippo di Iacopo Guidi is a 1526 oil by Andrea del Sarto, a High Renaissance work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
This painting shows a woman, Lucrezia, in a casual pose. She's wearing a dress and a headscarf, looking relaxed. The painting was originally part of a bigger work, an altarpiece, and was meant to be seen with other images. The portraits of Lucrezia and her husband were meant to flank other paintings. The painted strapwork around her portrait was part of a bigger pattern. This pattern would have connected all the paintings in the altarpiece. You can learn more about this style by looking at the work of artist: Andrea del Sarto.
This casually posed and loosely rendered portrait originally made up part of the lower section, or predella, of an altarpiece for a church in Gambassi, near Florence.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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