Raffaellino del Garbo

Raffaellino del Garbo (c. 1466 or 1470 in San Lorenzo a Vigliano (village of Barberino Val d' Elsa), † 1524 in Florence) was an Italian painter.

Life

Raffaellino del Garbo was a pupil of Filippino Lippi and by 1493 his assistant in the execution of the frescoes in Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. Since 1498 he was a master in Florence, where he died in 1524.

He had connected so closely to his teacher that his pictures were often confused with those of the former. In his mature works, however, he surpassed him by grace and beauty. His most notable easel paintings Madonna with the Child and two angels and the Madonna and Child, of angels and saints were in a Berlin museum. Both arise from the Solly collection, were probably destroyed in 1945.

The nickname del Garbo comes from the street in which he lived.