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Andrea del Sarto

American  
[ahn-drey-uh del sahr-toh, ahn-dre-ah del sahr-taw] / ɑnˈdreɪ ə dɛl ˈsɑr toʊ, ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ dɛl ˈsɑr tɔ /

noun

  1. Andrea Domenico d'Annolo di Francesco, 1486–1531, Italian painter.

  2. (italics) a dramatic monologue (1855) by Robert Browning.


Andrea del Sarto British  
/ anˈdrea del ˈsarto /

noun

  1. See Sarto

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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There, in the abbey’s refectory, the colors of the 16th-century “Last Supper” fresco by Andrea del Sarto are still bright, unlike those of Leonardo’s famous “Last Supper” in Milan.

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2022

It seems to me that Mill's melancholy could be summed up in one line from Robert Browning's Andrea del Sarto: A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2017

Both artists studied at the Florence studio of Andrea del Sarto, who is associated with the High Renaissance.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2012

No sooner had Andrea del Sarto traveled to France to work for the French king but his wife persuaded him to 1.

From SAT Tests

Among the art poems, Fra Lippo Lippi is the apostle of beauty in realism, Andrea del Sarto the attainer of perfection in form.

From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald

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