Madonna of the Harpies
1517
tempera on panel
207 x 178 cm
Pitti Palace

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Andrea Del Sarto was a High Renaissance Italian painter. Sarto had been influenced by Fra Bartolomeo, Michelangelo, and Leonardo Da Vinci. Sarto had such a great reputation when he was young that the King of France invited him to court. Andrea Del Sarto had lived through very difficult times. The Siege of Florence had been occurring at the time. Home invasions were common for people during that time, and Sarto had also been asked to paint some works of "unpleasant nature." Alongside the Siege of Florence, Andrea Del Sarto had experienced the plague, which was eventually his cause of death. 

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Credits:
http://www.historyofpainters.com/delsarto.htm
http://biography.yourdictionary.com/andrea-del-sarto
http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/european-art-1599-biographies/andrea-del-sarto
​https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_del_Sarto

These series of pictures is my progress on the Old Master's project throughout two weeks. At first it was just a light contour sketch. This sketch had developed with a light pain wash background (that had actually not turned out as expected, since it had been covered in dirt and dust from falling off of the drying rack when somebody had accidentally made it fall off). From the paint wash I had started using the conte crayon to start to imitate the Andrea Del Sarto's study.