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ANDREA DEL CASTAGNO (1390-1457)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 463 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDREA DEL See also:CASTAGNO (1390-1457)  , See also:Italian painter of the Florentine school, was See also:born in 1390, probably at See also:Castagno, in the See also:district of Mugello, and died in See also:August 1457 . He imitated See also:Masaccio and the naturalists of his See also:time in boldness of attitude, but was deficient in See also:grace and colouring . His name was for about four centuries burdened with the heinous See also:charge of See also:murder; it was said that he treacherously assassinated his colleague, Domenico Veneziano, in See also:order to monopolize the then See also:recent See also:secret of oil See also:painting as practised in See also:Flanders by the See also:Van Eycks . This charge has, however, been proved to be an untruth; Domenico died four years after See also:Andrea . The latter is commonly called " Andrea (or Andreino) degl' Impiccati " (of the Hanged Men); this was in consequence of his being commissioned in 1435 to paint, in the Palazzo del See also:Podesta in See also:Florence, the fallen leaders of the See also:Peruzzi and Albizzi—not (as currently said) the men of the Pazzi See also:conspiracy, an event which did not occur until 1478, See also:long after this painter's See also:death . One of his See also:principal See also:works now extant (most of them have perished) is the equestrian figure of Nicola di See also:Tolentino, in the See also:cathedral of Florence .

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