Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

The Metropolitan Museum of Art


    • Head of the Madonna, fragment
    Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) (Italian, Florentine, 1486–1530)
    Oil on wood

    15 x 11 1/2 in. (38.1 x 29.2 cm)
    The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931 (32.100.89)

    This is the only surviving fragment from a painting of the Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist. The original composition is known from an engraving by Cornelis Bloemaert and a painted copy by Sassoferrato, done when the picture belonged to the Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani in Rome. It is an early work by Sarto, painted around 1506–10. The frame is seventeenth-century, probably Bolognese.

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  • Head of the Madonna, fragment
    Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) (Italian, Florentine, 1486–1530)
    Oil on wood

    15 x 11 1/2 in. (38.1 x 29.2 cm)
    The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931 (32.100.89)