ALBERTINELLI, MARIOTTO

ALBERTINELLI, MARIOTTO. - Painter, born in Florence in 1474 and died there in 1515. He was a pupil of C. Rosselli, in whose school he came under the formative influence of Piero di Cosimo, evident in early works such as the Expulsion from Paradise in Zagreb or the Pitti tondo (no. 365). The Annunciation in the cathedral of Volterra (1497) attests to an initial period of collaboration with his fellow pupil fra' Bartolomeo. A. attained 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 Quattrocento character. Thereafter, the grandeur of the new century impelled him towards explorations of movement that made his forms coarse and his compositions complicated, as in the Crucifixion in the Certosa in Florence (1506) or the Annunciation in Boston. From 1509 to 1513 he again collaborated with fra' Bartolomeo. In the Madonna in the Florentine Academy or in the large Annunciation in the same museum (1510), he sought theatrical backgrounds and gestures, accentuated movement and chiaroscuro, and became monotonous and slovenly. In the few works he subsequently executed alone, he completely exhausted his qualities. - Vedi Tav. LIII.