Francesco Granacci
Francesco Granacci (1469 – 30 November 1543) was an Italian Renaissance painter active primarily in his native Florence. Though little-known today, he was regarded in his time and is featured in Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists.
Granacci was born in 1469 in
Staatliche Museen, Berlin), Adoration of the Child (Honolulu Museum of Art) and his panel from the four histories of Saint John the Baptist (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) show the strong influence of Ghirlandaio as well as Filippino Lippi, who might have been Granacci's first master. According to Vasari, when Granacci was still a youth he modeled for the nude figure in Filippino's Raising of Theophilus in the Brancacci Chapel.[1]
In 1508 Granacci went to Rome, where he and other artists, including
Sistine chapel ceiling. On his return to Florence, he painted a number of altarpieces and other important works, like the Madonna with Child with Saints Francesco and Jerome for the Augustinian convent of San Gallo or the Assumption of the Virgin for Santi Girolamo e Francesco sulla Costa (both now at the Galleria dell'Accademia). In 1515 he participated in the decorations celebrating Pope Leo X's visit to Florence. In 1519 he completed a large panel of the Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist, now at the Museum of Western and Eastern Art in Odessa.[2]
Granacci's works from the years 1520–1525 show some similarities to the work of
Church of San Simone e Giuda in Florence. In 1530 he completed the high altarpiece for the church of Sant'Apollonia, Florence; according to Vasari, this work was designed by Michelangelo. Its four main panels, depicting Saints Jerome, Apollonia, John the Baptist and Mary Magdalen, are at the Alte Pinakothek, Munich; a central Annunciation is at Corsham Court and the ten-part predella is now divided between the Accademia in Florence, the Villa I Tatti
in Florence and a private collection.
Granacci died in 1543. He is buried in the church of Sant'Ambrogio in Florence.
Sources
- Holst, Christian von. Francesco Granacci, Munich: Bruckmann, 1974.
- Markova, Vittoria. “Una tavola data di Francesco Granacci e qualche nota sul percorso,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorichen Institutes in Florenz, 37, Bd., H. 2/3 (1993): pp. 293–302.
- Aquino, Lucia and Giordani, Simone, eds. Francesco Granacci e Giovanni Larciani all’Oratorio di Santa Caterina all’Antella. Florence: Polistampa, 2013.
Gallery
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Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist, circa 1505–10. Ponce, Museo de Arte de Ponce. -
The Annunciation, late 1520s. Corsham Court (Wiltshire), Methuen Collection. -
Joseph Presents his Father and Brothers to the Pharaoh, circa 1516. Florence, Gallerie degli Uffizi.
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References
- ^ Fahy, Everett (2012). "The Young Francesco Granacci". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13.
- ^ Markova, Vittoria (1993). "Una tavola data di Francesco Granacci e qualche nota sul percorso". Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorichen Institutes in Florenz. 37: 293–302.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Francesco Granacci.
- Italian Paintings: Florentine School, a collection catalog containing information about Granacci and his works (see pages: 180–186).
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