Talk:Andrea del Sarto

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The following text has been deleted: Piero retained Andrea for some years, allowing him to study from the famous cartoons of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Is this information incorrect? --Wetman 18:45, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

• No idea. Don't have access right now to any of the sources I would check (at my public library :) Wikibofh 16:52, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

In fact, I'm quite certain that it was deleted by someone for whom the word "cartoons" and the names Leonardo and Michelangelo, when taken together, add up to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles— thus concluding that the statement was a hoax! I can't begin to tell you.... But no laughing permitted at Wikipedia! I wonder whether the Deleter will have the strength of character quietly to return the sentence to the article. We shall see. --Wetman 23:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] on Cartoons

I may have deleted it based on SJ. Freedberg's text. In addition, the 1911 Britannica entries, on which the shell of this entry is based, is full of these statements. Apprenticeship in Sarto's time was not a time passed "studying drawings". Sarto almost certainly was able at some point in his life see the competing fresco cartoons (now lost) of Leonardo or Michelangelo for the Palazzo Vecchio, but he was also able to see many other works in Florence. Why single these out?

The 1911 Britannica makes it sound that all any artist in Rome or Florence ever learned, he learned it either from Leonardo, Michelangelo, or Raphael. A tad of the Stendahl Syndrome focused on these artists. I vote for making the Art entries factual, relevant, and meaty. I do not think the entry above qualifies. CARAVAGGISTI