Sarto

Sarto, ANDREA. DEL (ANDREA VANNUCCHI), so called because his father was a tailor, was born in Florence about 1481. In 1509 the Servite brothers employed him to paint the three frescoes in the porch of the Annunziata, and were so pleased with the result that they ordered four others. Francis I. invited him to Paris 1518, paid him well, and sent him home with money to buy for him examples of Italian art, but Andrea is said to have appropriated the amount. After his return he produced the figures of Faith and Charity in the Scalzo, the Dance of Herodias' Daughter, The Beheading of John the Baptist, The Visitation, and The Birth of the Baptist in the same cloister. His final achievement, The Last Supper, at S. Salvi, was finished in 1527, and he died in 1531.