ALBERTINELLI, MARIOTTO

ALBERTINELLI, Mariotto. — Painter, born in Florence in 1474 and died there in 1515. He was a pupil of C. Rosselli, under whose tutelage he was influenced, for him formative, by Piero di Cosimo, evident in early works such as the Expulsion from Paradise in Zagreb or the Pitti tondo (no. 365). A first period of collaboration with his fellow student Fra' Bartolomeo is evidenced by the Annunciation in Volterra Cathedral (1497). He then reached maturity with the tabernacle in the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan (1500) and the Visitation in the Uffizi (1503), where a certain monumentality derived from Fra' Bartolomeo harmonizes with his nature as a quattrocento artist. Then the grandeur of the new century drives him toward researches into movement that render forms coarse and composition complicated, as in the Crucifixion in the Certosa in Florence (1506) or in the Annunciation in Boston. From 1509 to 1513 he again collaborated with Fra' Bartolomeo. In the Madonna of the Florentine Academy or in the great Annunciation in the same museum (1510), he seeks theatrical backgrounds and gestures, accentuates movement and chiaroscuro, and becomes monotonous and slovenly. In the few works he executed thereafter on his own, he exhausted his qualities entirely. — See Pl. LIII.