Italian
c1421-1457
Andrea del Castagno Location
Italian
c1421-1457
Andrea del Castagno Location
Italian painter. He was the most influential 15th-century Florentine master, after Masaccio, of the realistic rendering of the figure and the representation of the human body as a three-dimensional solid by means of contours. By translating into the terms of painting the statues of the Florentine sculptors Nanni di Banco and Donatello, Castagno set Florentine painting on a course dominated by line (the Florentine tradition of disegno), the effect of relief and the sculptural depiction of the figure that became its distinctive trait throughout the Italian Renaissance, a trend that culminated in the art of Michelangelo. Related Paintings of Andrea del Castagno :. | Crucifixion and Saints | St John the Baptist | Queen Esther | Famous Persons: Pippo Spano | Christ in the Sepulchre with Two Angels | Related Artists: GIOVANNI DA MILANO Italian Gothic Era Painter, active 1350-1369 Louis Ferdinand Elle 1612-1689 Mendham, Robert English, active 1821-1858