ANDREA di Bartolo, detto ANDREA di Bartolo, detto A. del Castagno del Castagno. Andrea del Castagno was an Italian painter from Florence, influenced chiefly by Tommaso Masaccio and Giotto di Bondone. Until quite recently the Last Supper appeared to be painted in much darker colours than the scenes directly above it; the fact had given rise to many animated debates between scholars concerning the dating of the fresco. Andrea del Castagno (1423-1457) was well known for the emotional expressionism and naturalism of his figure style. ANDREA DEL CASTAGNO Non si conosce nulla sulla sua prima formazione artistica, di cui si potrebbero suporre nomi come quello Paolo Uccello e Filippo Lippi, ma i pittori che più lo influenzarono furono Masaccio e Donatello. Andrea del Castagno was born in the Mugello, near Florence.Little is known of his life, though Giorgio Vasari described him as a violent individual, stating that he murdered his competitor Domenico Veneziano out of envy. ANEDOTTO STILE CICLO DEGLI UOMINI E DONNE ILLUSTRI Nel ‘Pietà’ was created in c.1447 by Andrea del Castagno in Early Renaissance style. Non giovava certamente il suo stile pittorico, spigoloso e sanguigno, a far migliorare la sua reputazione. One of Andrea del Castagno's most famous works is the Last Supper he painted below the stories from Christ's Passion. Ormai Andrea del Castagno era stato segnato fra gli artisti maledetti, scomode anime che raccontavano con un linguaggio diverso la realtà. His works include frescoes in Sant’Apollonia in Florence and the painted equestrian monument of Niccolò da Tolentino (1456) in the Cathedral in Florence. Find more prominent pieces of religious painting at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. This detached fresco comes from a cycle of portraits of famous men and women painted in 1449-50 in the family villa, Villa Carducci in Legnaia. - L'appellativo deriva dal luogo di nascita, Castagno di San Godenzo, nell'alto Mugello, sulle pendici del monte Falterona. A porre l’accento su questa sua terribile nomea contribuì un errore clamoroso di Giorgio Vasari. But before the middle of the nineteenth century only the Niccolò da Tolentino and the two Crucifixions from Santa Maria degli Angeli remained as evidences of Castagno's style. In this context, pitting Andrea del Castagno’s style with Leonardo da Vinci’s enables us to see the distinct styles adopted by them, representative of the evolution and philosophical ethos of the Renaissance. Andrea del Castagno was born in a village in the hills east of Florence. In the 19th century, Vasari's account was debunked when documentation with the exact date of Castagno's death surfaced—four years before Veneziano's. The Italian painter Andrea del Castagno (1421-1457) was a leading artist in the early Florentine Renaissance. It is often said that his Last Supper fresco exudes his greatest talent for balance between human figure and architecture.