Andrea del Castagno

Andrea del Castagno (Castagno 1421 - Florence 1457) east was Italian painter of the Renaissance.

Biography

Andrea del Castagno obtains, says one, of Domenico Veneziano the secrecy to paint with oil, and assassinates it then to adapt this art: its crime was known only after its death.

Charged by the republic with Florence with making the table where must be represented Exécution of the Pazzi , which had conspired against the Médicis, it does it with a so alarming truth, which the people do not call it any more since André of Hung the . Near to Masaccio by the power of the model, it éexéute frescos of the convent of Sant' Apollonia of 1445 with 1450.

The legend according to which Andrea del Castagno would have assassinated Domenico Veneziano is generally allotted to Giorgio Vasari, extracted from its work " Quickly of' piu eccellenti Pittori, Scultori and Architettori ". Actually, Andrea del Castagno is deceased before Domenico Veneziano (respectively in 1457 and 1461).

Internal bonds

Giorgio Vasari quotes it and describes its biography in Quickly the
works of Andrea del Castagno to the Offices of Florence

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