ANDREA DEL CASTAGNO (b. 1423, Castagno, d. 1457, Firenze) Madonna and Child c. 1450 Fresco Villa Carducci, Soffiano (Florence) Andrea was commissioned the Legnaia Famous Persons cycle no later than June 1449, when Filippo Carducci, the owner of the villa and most probably the one who commissioned the frescoes, died. The frescoes were finished before the house was sold in October 1451. The Legnaia cycle consists of nine portrayals (three Florentine military commanders, three famous women and three Tuscan poets), placed inside painted niches made to look like monumental marble recesses, separ
ANDREA DEL CASTAGNO (b. 1423, Castagno, d. 1457, Firenze) Madonna and Child c. 1450 Fresco Villa Carducci, Soffiano (Florence) Andrea was commissioned the Legnaia Famous Persons cycle no later than June 1449, when Filippo Carducci, the owner of the villa and most probably the one who commissioned the frescoes, died. The frescoes were finished before the house was sold in October 1451. The Legnaia cycle consists of nine portrayals (three Florentine military commanders, three famous women and three Tuscan poets), placed inside painted niches made to look like monumental marble recesses, separated by pilasters. On one of the room's short walls, between the figures of Adam and Eve, there was a lunette containing a Madonna and Child beneath a canopy supported by angels that was only discovered several years after the rest of the decoration. --- Keywords: -------------- Author: ANDREA DEL CASTAGNO Title: Madonna and Child Time-line: 1401-1450 School: Italian Form: painting Type: religious
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