Raffaellino del Garbo

Raffaele dei Capponi
Raffaele dei Carli

Florentine, 1466 - 1524

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Three individuals are depicted in ornate niche-like spaces framed by classical architectural elements. The person on the left has a long beard and is wearing a long, brown robe with a hood, holding a staff. In the center, a male figure with long dark hair, dressed in a blue garment and holding a cross, is supported by a large wooden staff. The figure on the right is dressed in a pale robe edged with gold, with a pink drape around the shoulders, long wavy hair, and a halo, holding a palm. Foliage design is atop the architectural framing. The background shows a pale blue sky with light clouds, green fields, and distant buildings to the right.
Raffaellino del Garbo, The "Chief Framer", Saint Roch between Saints Anthony Abbot and Catherine of Alexandria, c. 1485/1495, gouache and brown wash heightened with white on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1.h

Saint Roch between Saints Anthony Abbot and Catherine of Alexandria

Raffaellino del Garbo, The "Chief Framer" · c. 1485/1495 · gouache and brown wash heightened with white on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1.h

Four drawings of faces and bodies are affixed onto a larger vertical album page, on which architectural decorations have been drawn on to act as frames. Three vertical drawings are spaced along the top half of the ivory-colored album page, and one larger horizontal drawing fills the bottom half. Drawn with brown ink and gray washes, the frames resemble moldings and scrolls around each drawing, with garlands flanking the bottom sketch. The three drawings in the top zone are done with metalpoint on gray or mauve paper and are highlighted with touches of white. The metalpoint technique creates faint silvery-gray lines. In the top left drawing, a nude man stands facing us. In the center, the face of a cleanshaven young man with curling hair beneath a cap looks down and to our left. Below the face, a forearm and hand clutching a rock appears next to another study of a hand. In the drawing to our right, a man wearing a toga-like robe leans on a walking stick, facing our left in profile. The drawing at the bottom is done with gray metalpoint lines and white strokes against golden yellow paper. A person sits and twists up in a spiral to our left. In the center of this drawing are three studies of muscular legs. Then, to our right, a man sits on a throne holding a spear or scepter and globe, facing our right in profile. An inscription in the frame below the bottom drawing reads, “Filippo Lippi Pitt: Fior:”
The "Chief Framer", Giorgio Vasari, Raffaellino del Garbo, Sandro Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, Page from the Collection of Niccolò Gaddi (So-Called "Vasari Page"), Sheets probably 1480-1504; mounting & framework c. 1575/1590, album page with ten drawings on recto and verso in various media with decoration in pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, on light buff paper, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1

Page from the Collection of Niccolò Gaddi (So-Called "Vasari Page")

The "Chief Framer", Giorgio Vasari, Raffaellino del Garbo, Sandro Botticelli, Filippino Lippi · Sheets probably 1480-1504; mounting & framework c. 1575/1590 · album page with ten drawings on recto and verso in various media with decoration in pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, on light buff paper ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1

Bibliography

1968

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 116-117.