Andrea del Sarto
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Andrea del Sarto see Sarto, Andrea del .
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`Lost' Madonna masterpiece with scandalous past for sale.(News)
The Independent (London, England); 11/23/2004; Jury, Louise; 538 words
; Byline: Louise Jury WHEN ANDREA del Sarto unveiled his painting of the Madonna and Child, Florence was abuzz with rumours that the sitter was his mistress. Nearly 500 years later the painting is generating debate again, resurfacing on the market after languishing unacknowledged in a private
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Browning's Andrea Del Sarto.(Robert Browning)(Critical Essay)
The Explicator; 9/22/2003; Cervo, Nathan A.; 682 words
; The persona in Robert Browning's Andrea Del Sarto (1855) feels disen-franchised and is quite willing to place the blame on God: And all that I was born to be and do, A twilight-piece. Love, we are in God's hand. How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we
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Andrea del Sarto's monsters: the Madonna of the Harpies and human-animal hybrids in the renaissance.(artists)
Apollo; 7/1/2004; Cohen, Simona; 787 words
; The mysterious monsters who lurk beneath the pedestal of the Virgin in Andrea del Sarto's Madonna of the Harpies have been variously interpreted--as sphinxes and locusts as well as harpies. Simona Cohen argues that they are embodiments of Original Sin, and explains why the artist chose grotesque
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Found in an attic ..a 1m treasure
Evening Standard - London; 1/17/2000; 78 words
; THIS flaking panel of the Madonna and Child, left, has lodged in the attic of a country church in Massachusetts, New England, for 64 years, believed to be a 19th century copy of an Andrea del Sarto. It has, miraculously, emerged under infrared reflectography as an autograph work, major alterations
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Less is more in good writing, too
Chicago Sun-Times; 12/12/1999; JAMES J. KILPATRICK; 686 words
; As Robert Browning told the tale, the painter Andrea del Sarto was talking to his wife about perfection in art. He summed it up: "Less is more, Lucrezia!" The architect Mies van der Rohe picked up the phrase and ran off with it, but the thought was sound. Writers, no less than architects, should
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