Mariotto Albertinelli

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Mariotto Albertinelli: The Annunciation , Munich, Alte Pinakothek

Mariotto Albertinelli , actually Mariotto di Biagio di Bindo Albertinelli , name variant Biagio di Bindo Albertinell (born  October 13, 1474 in Florence , † November 5, 1515 ibid) was an Italian painter .

Life

Mariotto Albertinelli was a son of the gold beater Biagio di Bindo Albertinelli . He received his training as a painter in the workshop of Cosimo Rosselli . He must have shown himself to be quite talented, because Vasari reports that Albertinelli drew in the gardens of the Medici antiquities and also worked personally for Alfonsina Orsini , the wife of Piero di Lorenzo de 'Medici . During his apprenticeship he got to know Baccio della Porta, who would later call himself Fra Bartolommeo . The two young painters became friends and from an artistic point of view they harmonized so well with one another that after completing their apprenticeship they stayed together and founded a joint workshop in the house of Baccio's father around 1494. In the following years her work was so closely linked that many of the works created up to 1500 cannot be clearly assigned today and are alternately assigned to Albertinelli or Baccio in their attribution. Works such as the fresco The Last Judgment for Santa Maria Nuova in Florence, begun in 1500 by Baccio and completed in 1501 by Albertinelli, show that the two painters' contributions to the picture can hardly be distinguished from one another, which research regards as evidence that Albertinelli knew how to adapt himself perfectly to his friend's style. From this and from the fact that Baccio is seen as the more talented painter, art history today draws the conclusion that he is also to be seen as the head of the partnership, who was responsible for both the pictorial compositions and the style. Proof of Baccio's artistic dominance are some of Albertinelli's works, in which he consciously tried to set himself apart from his partner's style. In addition to the clear influences of the painters Filippino Lippi , Piero di Cosimo and Pietro Perugino , these independent works also have echoes of old Dutch painting, especially artists like Hugo van der Goes and Hans Memling , as well as the ancient formal language of the Italian Trecento .

Mariotto Albertinelli: The Visitation , Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi

In 1500, the partnership between the two painters broke up when Baccio, who was a supporter of the penitential preacher Savonarola , decided to join the Dominican Order and thus renounce painting. There he took the name Fra Bartolomeo. Albertinelli continued the unfinished Last Judgment and completed it in March of the following year.

Albertinelli continued the workshop on his own and around 1503 painted his most famous independent work , the Visitation, which is now kept in the Uffizi in Florence .

In 1505 Albertinelli married the wine merchant's daughter Antonia Ugolini. In 1506 he was officially declared of legal age by his father and appointed guardian of Fra Bartolomeo's brother Piero della Porta, whom he was to train as a painter. In 1509, under the patronage of the San Marco Monastery in Florence, he reunited as an equal partner with Fra Bartolommeo, who had meanwhile resumed painting; both founded a new workshop. They chose a cross with two intertwined rings as a studio symbol. In the same year, the two men traveled together to Lucca , where they set up an altarpiece painted for the Cathedral of San Martino . A fruitful collaboration developed again, in which Fra Bartolommeo can again be seen as the creative head of the partnership.

Due to defamation, Albertinelli gave up painting for a short time in 1512 and, with the help of his father-in-law, opened a small tavern in Florence. Thereupon the joint partnership with Fra Bartolommeo was declared officially ended on January 5, 1513.

Soon after, Albertinelli gave up the job of tavern keeper and went to Rome and Viterbo , where he began to paint again. There he fell seriously ill, according to Vasari, and was carried back to Florence in a basket, where he died shortly after his arrival on November 5, 1515. His last painting, begun in Viterbo, a Coronation of Mary , he left behind unfinished. It was only completed in 1542 by Fra Paolino da Pistoia .

Albertinelli left a rich work. In addition to representative altarpieces, he mainly painted small devotional pictures for various private clients. In addition, numerous drawings ascribed to Albertinelli have survived.

Albertinelli's position in art history

In today's research, Albertinelli is considered to be a very talented painter, who, however, under the overpowering influence of Fra Bartolomeo, could hardly establish himself as an independent master. He worked at a time when the art of the High Renaissance was establishing itself in Florence. In doing so, he subordinated himself to the new view of art on the one hand and set permanent accents in the representation of monumental architecture and heavenly appearances. At the same time, he had a preference for traditional forms of representation that stood in the way of the perfection of the High Renaissance and so did not always harmonize optimally with it in the execution.

Albertinelli trained several painters, including Jacopo da Pontormo .

Works

  • Athens, National Gallery
An episode from Genesis (?). around 1513
  • Bergamo, Accademia Carrara
Cain and Abel . around 1513
  • Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
Maria with the child . around 1495 (attributed)
  • formerly Berlin, Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum
The Assumption of Mary . (attributed to Fra Bartolomeo)
Mary with the Child in Glory with Saints and Donors (Ferry Carondelet Altar). 1512 (with Fra Bartolomeo)
  • Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum.
Maria with the child . 1509
  • Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum
The Annunciation . 1508
The sacrifice of Cain and Abel . around 1510
  • Chartres, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Marian triptych. around 1500
  • Columbia, Museum of Art
Mary with the child, saints and angels . around 1510 (attributed)
  • Detroit, Institute of Art
Adoration of the child . around 1506
  • Florence, Certosa di Val d'Ema
The crucifixion of Christ . 1505 (fresco)
  • Florence, Galleria della Accademia
The Annunciation . 1510
Mary with the child and the Saints Julian, Dominik, Nikolaus and Hieronymus . around 1510
The Holy Trinity . around 1510
  • Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi
The Visitation. 1503
Predella - Scenes from the Youth of Christ: The Annunciation ; The adoration of the child ; The offering of Christ in the temple . 1503
  • Florence, Museo S. Marco (formerly Ospedale di S. Maria Nuova)
The last judgment . around 1500/01 (fresco - with Fra Bartolomeo)
  • Florence, Pitti Palace
The adoration of the child by Mary and an angel . around 1502
The Lamentation of Christ ( Pietà ). around 1511 (with Fra Bartolomeo)
The Annunciation . around 1511 (with Fra Bartolomeo)
  • Genoa, Collezione Basevi-Gambarana
Maria with the child . 1509
  • Yorkshire, Harewood House
Maria with the child . 1509
  • Lewisburg, Bucknell University Art Gallery
Maria with the child . around 1510
  • London, Courtauld Institute Galleries
The birth of christ . around 1504 - 1515 (attributed)
The creation of the world, of man and the fall of man . around 1513 - 1515
  • Longniddry, Earl of Wemyss
Maria with the child . around 1512
  • Los Angeles, Country Museum of Art
The holy family. 1498 (with Fra Bartolomeo)
  • Lucca, Museo di Villa Guinigi
Saints Mary Magdalene and Catherine of Siena before God the Father . 1509 (with Fra Bartolomeo)
Mary with the child and the saints Katharina and Barbara . 1509
  • Munich, Alte Pinakothek
The Annunciation . around 1506
The fall of man . around 1509 - 1513
The sacrifice of Abraham . around 1508 - 1513
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mary with the child, the boy John and an angel .
  • Paris, Musee National du Louvre
Mary with the Child and the Saints Jerome and Zenobius . 1506 (with Franciabigio)
  • Pisa, Chiesa di Santa Caterina d'Alessandria
Mary with the child and the saints Peter and Paul . 1511 (with Fra Bartolomeo)
  • Rome, Borghese Gallery
The Holy Family with the boy John . 1512 (with Fra Bartolomeo)
The Redeemer , around 1513/14
  • St. Petersburg, Hermitage
Mary and Joseph worship the Christ Child .
  • Stuttgart, State Gallery
Three fragments: two angels holding flowers ; Christ and Mary ; Two angels . 1512 (with Fra Bartolome - upper picture finish of the Ferry Carondelet Altar in Besançon)
  • Venice, Seminario Patriarcale, Pinacoteca Manfrediniana
Maria with the child . around 1512
  • Viterbo , SS. Andrea e Giovanni Battista
Mary with the child, between saints . around 1514 (attributed)
  • Volognano, Chiesa di S. Michele
Mary with the child, saints and donors . 1514
The Annunciation . 1497 (with Fra Bartolomeo)
  • West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art
Mary with the child, the boy John and two angels . around 1509
  • Zagreb, Stossmayer Gallery
The expulsion from paradise .
  • Whereabouts unknown
Mary and Joseph worship the Christ Child . (auctioned on January 15, 1993 at Sotheby's in New York)
Mary with the Child ( Madonna della Melagrana ). (auctioned on December 8, 1993 at Sotheby's in London)
Mary with the child in a landscape . (auctioned on January 29, 1999 at Christie's in New York)

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SURNAME Albertinelli, Mariotto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albertinelli, Mariotto di Biagio di Bindo (full name); Albertinell, Biagio di Bindo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1474
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1515
Place of death Florence