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The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance

by Bernard Berenson

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Andrea del Castagno

Died rather young in 1457. Influenced by Donatello and Paolo Uccello.

Florence. Uffizi, Third Tuscan Room. 12. Fresco: Crucifixion and Saints. S. Appolonia, Refectory. Frescoes: Last Supper; Crucifixion; Entombment; Resurrection. Soon after 1434. (Nine Figures) Boccaccio; Petrarch; Dante; Queen Thomyris; Cumæan Sibyl; Niccolò Acciajuoli; Farinati degli Uberti; Filippo Scolari (“Pippo Spano”); Esther. L.—Frieze of Putti with Garlands.
Cloister. Fresco: Dead Christ and Angels. Soon after 1434. Hospital (33 Via degli Alfani), Court. Fresco: Crucifixion. SS. Annunziata, first Altar L. Fresco: Christ and St. Julian. L. (Invisible.)
Second Altar L. Fresco: Trinity with St. Jerome and other Saints. L. (Invisible.) Duomo, Wall R. of Entrance: Fresco: Equestrian Portrait of Niccolò da Tolentino. 1456.
Window in Drum of Cupola (from his design). Deposition. 1444.

Locko Park (near Derby).
Mr. Drury Lowe. David (painted on a Shield). L.

London.
1138. Small Crucifixion.
Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. Bust of Man.

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