RAFFAELLINO DEL GARBO. - Florentine painter, b. around 1470, lived until about 1525.

He was already distinguished into as many artists of varying training (all active in Florence in the same period and with the same first name) as there are signatures (de' Carli, de' Capponi, da Firenze) that are read in the works ascribed to him by Vasari, as well as by the nickname (del G.) by which he was customarily called. The diversity of manners is explained by admitting that the painter, having come to Rome as a workshop boy of Filippino Lippi to fresco the Carafa chapel at the Minerva, where he would have painted the damaged Sibyls of the vault, then passed into the service of Pier Matteo d'Amelia, a pupil of Pinturicchio, from whom he would have learned the Umbrian manners. Among the signed and documented works are remembered: Madonna and Saints, Uffizi, 1500; Mass of St. Gregory, formerly Benson, 1501; Madonna in Glory, S. Maria degli Angeli near Siena, 1502; Madonna and Saints, Florence, S. Spirito, 1505; St. John Gualbert, Valombrosa, Pieve, 1507-1509.

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BIBL.: G. Gronau, Garbo, in Thieme-Becker, XIII (1920), p. 170 ff.; Ruscus, R. d. G., in Emporium, 60 (1924), p. 513 ff.; R. van Marle, The development of the Italian schools of painting, XII, The Hague 1931, p. 416 ff.; B. Berenson, Ital. pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford 1932, pp. 478-79.

RAFFAELLINO DEL GARBO - Virgin and Child between Sts. Nicholas, Bernard, Dominic and Peter Martyr - Berlin, Kaiser Friedrich Museum.(by courtesy of Dr. B. Degenhart)

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