Andrea del Sarto (actually d'Anolo, d'Agnolo) (16.07.1486 – 28 (or 29) .09.1530), Italian painter. Studied under Piero di Cosimo. Experienced it influence by Leonardo da Vinci, Fra Bartolommeo, Michelangelo. In 1518 – 1519, visited Paris. Work Sarto [Murals: in Cloître church Santissima Annunziata (1510 - 1515), in the monasteries Scalzi (1515 - 1526) and San Salvi (late 1520's.) - All in Florence; "Madonna and Child with St. Ekaterina, Elizabeth and John the Baptist, 1519, the Hermitage, Leningrad, "Portrait of the sculptor," Nat. gal., London] differ clearly logical compositions based on a complex balance of space-rhythmic elements. Software poetic inspiration it works is largely due to the enveloping light and shade, combining bright, juicy color field. However, the inherent creativity Sarto some abstract images and propensity to dogmatization artistic principles of the High Renaissance.
Lit.: Eliasberg NE, Andrea del Sarto, [Moscow, 1973]; Shearman J., Andrea del Sarto, v. 1 – 2, Oxf., 1965.