Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) and the Art of Reform

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dc.contributor.advisorGill, Meredith Jen_US
dc.contributor.authorCody, Steven Josephen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArt History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-26T05:38:30Z
dc.date.available2015-06-26T05:38:30Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractDuring the second and third decades of the sixteenth century, Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) distinguished himself within the city of Florence as a painter of considerable talent. He worked within a variety of religious institutions, creating altarpieces rich in theological complexity, elegant in formal execution, and dazzlingly brilliant in chromatic impact. This dissertation analyzes six of those altarpieces, offering a cross-section of Andrea's working life and stylistic development. Approaching the artist's career from this perspective provides modern audiences with a valuable glimpse into his strategies for marrying his own social ambitions to the spiritual teachings that informed ecclesiastical art. These strategies evolved as Andrea learned from each artistic commission he undertook, each altarpiece that he produced in dialogue with educated patrons and learned religious advisors. Over the course of his career, he himself privileged with increasing sophistication theological texts concerned with the idea of reform. I argue that Andrea's stylistic development as a painter describes this process of spiritual education. This argument reconsiders the established conventions of the art-historical monograph, as it adds significantly to the broader scholarly discussion of Renaissance religious art, shedding fresh light on early modern theories of subjectivity and sensation.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M24K95
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/16626
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArt historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledReligious historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAltarpieceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAndrea del Sartoen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFlorenceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPaintingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledReformen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSixteenth Centuryen_US
dc.titleAndrea del Sarto (1486-1530) and the Art of Reformen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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