Raffaellino del Garbo
Raffaellino del Garbo | |
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Born | Raffaello di Bartolomeo dei Carli 1466 Florence, Italy |
Died | ca. 1527 Florence, Italy |
Nationality | Italian |
Education | Filippino Lippi |
Known for | Painting |
Raffaellino del Garbo (1466–1527) was a Florentine painter of the early Renaissance.
Biography
His real name was Raffaello di Bartolomeo dei Carli. He was also known as Raffaello Capponi after his adoptive family. The appellation "del Garbo" comes from the location of his workshop on the street formerly known as the via del Garbo, now the via della Condotta. He was also called Raffaelle de' Carli and signed at least one altarpiece, in situ in the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Valli, Siena, as "Raffaello de Florentia" [i.e. Raphael of Florence]. He was a pupil of Filippino Lippi, with whom he remained until 1490, if not later. He accompanied Filippino to Rome, where, according to Vasari, he painted the anteroom of the chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas (Carafa Chapel) in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.
Vasari thought the artist died at Florence in 1524, but he was certainly alive in 1527, when he was described as fit for military duty. He probably succumbed to the plague that ravaged Florence between 1527 and 1528.[1]
His pupils reportedly included Andrea del Sarto and the young Bronzino.
Works
Raffaellino produced altarpieces, frescoes and small scale religious works for domestic interiors. His activity was focused on Florence and its environs. Four extant altarpieces are signed and dated:
- Madonna and Child with Saints Francis, Zenobius and Two Donors, dated 1500, once at the Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova, Florence, and now at the Museo del Cenacolo di San Salvi, Florence.
- Mass of Saint Gregory, dated 1501, originally in the Antinori chapel, Santo Spirito, Florence, and now at the Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida.[2]
- Madonna and Child with Two Angels, Saints Jerome and Bartholomew, dated 1502, originally in the Corsini chapel, Santo Spirito, Florence, and now at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California.[3]
- Madonna and Child in Glory with Saints Bernardo degli Uberti, Mary Magdalen, John the Baptist and a Bishop Saint, dated 1502, in its original location over the high altar of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Valli, Siena.
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Madonna Enthroned with Saints and Angels, 1502, oil on poplar panel, 214.6 × 198.1 cm, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
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Annunciation, ca 1510, private collection
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Resurrection, ca 1498, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence
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Portrait of a man, ca 1495, National Gallery, London
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Bust of a Young Woman, 1490s, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Raffaellino del Garbo". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 813. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 230.
Further reading
- Zeri, F. & Gardner, E. (1971). Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Florentine School. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (pages 172-174)