Giovanni Battista Naldini

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Giovanni Battista Naldini (1537 - 1591) was an Italian painter of a late-Mannerism in Florence.

His first apprenticeship (1549-57) was in the studio of Jacopo Pontormo. He went from Rome for a number of months following 1560, and was recruited to work for Giorgio Vasari in 1562. He painted two crowded, mannerist canvas for the Studiolo of Francesco I in the Palazzo Vecchio: the Allegory of Dreams and the Gathering of Ambergris. He supplied altarpieces to Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce. Ultimately, he is aptly described by Freedberg as displaying derivation from Andrea del Sarto, as expressed by Naldini's two mentors and Sarto's two pupils: Pontormo and Vasari.

[edit] References

  • Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art: Painting in Italy, 1500-1600, 610-611.
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