Albertinelli, Mariotto

▪ Italian painter

in full  Mariotto Albertinelli di Biagio di Bindo 

born 1474, Florence [Italy]

died 1515, Florence

      painter associated with Fra Bartolommeo (Bartolommeo, Fra), and an artist whose style upheld the principles of the High Renaissance in Florence a decade after its leading exponents had moved to Rome.

      Albertinelli and Fra Bartolommeo were fellow pupils of Cosimo Rosselli and later painted many works together. Albertinelli's chief paintings are in Florence, notably his masterpiece, the “Visitation of the Virgin” (1503; Uffizi). His style, similar to that of Fra Bartolommeo, is characterized by simple dignity and monumentality and shows particularly the influence of Leonardo da Vinci in its aristocratic, smiling figures, intimate compositions, and strong contrast of light and dark (chiaroscuro).

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