Andrea del Sarto: ‘a faultless painter’ eclipsed by his contemporaries

On the 16th of July 1486, Andrea del Sarto was born in Florence.  Sarto’s family name was likely to be Lanfranchi, and his father seems to have been a tailor.  Little is known about his childhood perhaps because they were quite uneventful.   With two short exceptions, he lived in Florence....