Raffaellino del Garbo

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Madonna Enthroned with Saints and Angels

Raffaellino del Garbo, 1502

Oil on poplar panel

214.6 × 198.1 cm

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Raffaellino del Garbo (1466 or perhaps 1476 – 1524) was a Florentine painter of the early-Renaissance.

His real name was Raffaello Capponi; Del Garbo was a nickname, bestowed upon him seemingly from the graceful nicety (garbo) of his earlier works. He has also been called Raffaello de Florentia, and Raffaello de Carolis or Karli. He was a pupil of Filippino Lippi, with whom he remained till 1490, if not later. He accompanied Filippino to Rome, where he painted the ceiling of the chapel of St. Thomas Acquinas (Caraffa Chapel) in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.

Among his works are a Resurrection, originally for the church of the Benedictine monastery of Monte Oliveto, now in the Accademia. He painted a Miracle of the Loaves in the refectory of the convent at Cesto. A Coronation of the Virgin is in the Louvre museum. A Madonna and child with Saints and donors was previously at the Berlin Museum. Another picture painted in the early part of his life is in the monastery of San Salvi, and is highly commended by Moreni in his Notizie istoriclie dei Contorni di Firenze. He painted a ‘‘Virgin and Child ' between SS. Francis and Zenobius and two kneeling patrons, which is (1500, and is in the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, in Florence. He married and had a large family. The cares of a large family eventually proved fatal to the growing reputation of Capponi, causing him to sink into a state of listlessness and apathy. He is said to have died at Florence in great poverty in 1524.

The young Bronzino was his pupil.

[edit] External links

• Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Angel Of The Annunciation
• Memorial Art Gallery: Madonna and Child with Angel
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: Madonna and Child with Saint Joseph and an Angel

[edit] References

• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
• Bryan, Michael (1886). in Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 230.