Andrea del sarto biography definition

ANDREA DEL SARTO

High Renaissance Florentine Painter

Influences: Fra Bartolomeo, Michelangelo, andLeonardo Da Vinci

Cause of Death -  Plague,  "he died, aged forty-two, on the 22nd of January, , and was buried very quietly by the &#;Brethren of the Scalzo&#; in the church of the S.

Annunziata."

Biography of Andrea Del Sarto

Escape from King Frances

Andrea grew up in a family of tailors and cobblers. His name "Andrea del Sarto",  literally means "the tailor's Andrew",  sarto is the Italian word for tailor.  Andrea Del Sarto's rose quickly in the ranks of Florentine painters and was in high demand while still a young painter.

His reputation was so great that the King of France invited him to court.  The following insight into Andrea Del Sarto life is From Giorgio Vasari's:  Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects published in c.

"The king gave him a large pension, and did everything to retain him,