Art Institute of Chicago

Lucrezia di Lippo di Iacopo Guidi

Andrea del Sarto (Italian, 1486–1530)

Date

1525–28

Medium

Oil on panel

Culture

Italy

Department

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

This casually posed and loosely rendered portrait originally made up part of the lower section, or predella, of an altarpiece for a church in Gambassi, near Florence. The images of the patron, Domenico , and his wife, Lucrezia, flanked additional, now-lost works. The painted strapwork around the portraits, discovered during recent conservation treatment, once formed part of a decorative pattern that would have extended throughout the predella; it indicates how all the individual paintings were interconnected. Andrea del Sarto added highlights at the bottom of each roundel, mimicking the natural light of the church, to create the illusion of the paintings being set within a three-dimensional frame.

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