Francesco Granacci

Francesco d' Andrea di Marco Granacci (* 1469 in Villa Magna, † November 30, 1543 in Florence ) was a painter of the Italian Renaissance and life-long friend of Michelangelo. He is mentioned in biographies of Giorgio Vasari.

Life

Granacci artistic career began in the mid- 1480s probably, when he joined as an apprentice in the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio. There he also met Michelangelo, who should remain to him a lifelong friend. As an assistant, he participated in the workshop several times to the images of his master. For example, he helped on the frescoes in San Marco, which had been commissioned by Lorenzo de ' Medici in order. As then the sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni, a pupil of Donatello, sculptor apprentices for his garden at San Marco was looking for, moved the young Granacci along with Michelangelo, who felt more attracted by nature of the sculpture, in whose workshop about.

After completing his training as a sculptor to Granacci turned by both learned techniques of fresco painting and sculpture, from, and the tempera and oil painting began to dedicate. His early works, such as four stories from the life of John the Baptist, the Adoration of the Magi, or the Madonna with St. Thomas, show lighting and inking a strong influence of his teacher Ghirlandaio and Filippino Lippi its temporary employees on. 1508 Granacci traveled to Rome to his friend Michelangelo to help with other old companions from the workshop of Ghirlandaio in the painting of the Sistine ceiling. The stay was short lived, as Michelangelo decided after completion of the carton due to its lack of quality to get the job itself and his assistants dismissed.

Back in Florence was born in the same year is a Madonna with Child and Saints Francis and Jerome for the Augustinian convent of San Gallo.

After the stay in Rome Granacci style began to change: To have a number of images that emerged after his return to Florence, a mannerist influence, which is most likely due to Michelangelo. Work of the years 1520 - 1525, however, approach to the style of Fra Bartolomeo.

As Granacci died in 1543, he was buried in the church of Sant ' Ambrogio in Florence.

Works (selection)

Dated works

  • Enthroned Madonna between Saint Michael and John the Baptist ( Staatliche Museen, Berlin)
  • 1500, Adoration of the Infant Jesus, tempera ( Honolulu Academy of Arts)
  • Four stories from the life of John the Baptist (New York City, Liverpool and Cleveland)
  • 1508 Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Jerome, ( Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence)
  • 1510 The Crucifixion, Tempera and gold on wood, 48.3 x 29.2 cm center section; 48.3 x 15.2 cm each side (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City )
  • About 1515, Mary with the Child and two angels and saints Francis and Zenobius, wood, 193x174 cm ( Galleria dell ' Academia, Florence)
  • About 1515, Joseph is taken to prison, tempera on wood, 95 x 224 cm ( Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)
  • 1517-1519, The Assumption of the Virgin, ( Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota )
  • 1519 Madonna and Child with St. John, ( Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa )
  • About 1520, Madonna and Child, oil on wood, 86.7 x 64.5 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
  • About 1525 Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Four Saints ( Galleria dell ' Academia, Florence)
  • Approximately 1527 Entry of Charles VIII into Florence, oil on wood ( Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence)

Undated works

  • Madonna della Cintola, oil on wood

Controversial works

  • C.1510: Portrait of a Man in Armor (National Gallery, London)
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