Artist: Andrea del Castagno Painting: Francesco Petrarca Introduction: c. 1450
Fresco transferred to wood, 247 x 153 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Artist: Andrea del Castagno Painting: The Youthful David Introduction: c. 1450
Tempera on leather on wood, width at bottom 115,6 x 41 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Italian
c1421-1457
Andrea del Castagno Location
Italian
c1421-1457
Andrea del Castagno Location
Italian painter. He was the most influential 15th-century Florentine master, after Masaccio, of the realistic rendering of the figure and the representation of the human body as a three-dimensional solid by means of contours. By translating into the terms of painting the statues of the Florentine sculptors Nanni di Banco and Donatello, Castagno set Florentine painting on a course dominated by line (the Florentine tradition of disegno), the effect of relief and the sculptural depiction of the figure that became its distinctive trait throughout the Italian Renaissance, a trend that culminated in the art of Michelangelo.
. Related Artists to Andrea del Castagno : | Giacinto Gigante | Matthias Stomer | Anton Wilhelm Tischbein | Domenico Induno | Master of the Schotten Altarpiece |