Andrea Sabbatini (1487–1530) (var. Andrea Sabatini or Andrea da Salerno) was an Italian

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

of the

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...

. He was born in

Salerno Salerno (, ; ; ) is an ancient city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Campania, southwestern Italy, and is the capital of the namesake province, being the second largest city in the region by number of inhabitants, after Naples. It is located ...

, and initially trained under Raimondo Epifanio in Naples, but moved to Rome and became a close disciple of

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael ( , ), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of paintings by Raphael, His work is admired for its cl ...

. Andrea da Salerno created a number of important paintings with religious motives, such as ''The Adoration of the Cross'', ''The Seven Church Teachers'', ''Saint Nicholas in a Throne Between his Saviors'', ''Offering of the Kings'', ''Madonna with Child'', etc., which are displayed in the Museum of Naples. He also produced

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es in churches, such as in Santa Maria delle Grazie, San Gennaro dei Poveri, and others. It is said that Andrea da Salerno was Raphael's disciple, and absorbed most of his style. This is particularly evident in one of his last works, ''The Nativity''. But in 1985 some scholars complained that he was not the creator of this "Nativity". He served as one of the Captains Regent of the Republic of San Marino from April to September 1527.

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Bibliography

* * Giovanni Previtali,''Andrea da Salerno nel Rinascimento meridionale'' (''Andrea da Salerno During the Middle Renaissance''), Catalogo della mostra Padula (SA) 1986, Certosa di San Lorenzo, Edizioni Centro Di, Firenze, 1986, 1487 births 1530 deaths People from Salerno Painters from Campania 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Painters from Naples Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub