ARCANGELO DI JACOPO DEL SELLAIO

Not much is known about Arcangelo, other than the fact that he was the son of the painter Jacopo del Sellaio and that he took over the running of his father’s workshop upon the latter’s death in 1493. Arcangelo’s style comes very close to that of his father’s, so much so that after Jacopo’s death Arcangelo even finished off some of his commissions.

Arcangelo di Jacopo del Sellaio was the son of Jacopo del Sellaio. His work was first grouped together under the name of the “Master of the Miller Tondo”. The oeuvre of the master was later definitively linked with Arcangelo del Sellaio. The two displayed panels are the wings of a diptych.

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The artist, a minor painter, was the son of Jacopo del Sellaio.

The reliefs, painted in grisaille on either side of the arch in the background, show the Temptation and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden. They derive from Masaccio’s and Masolino’s frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence.

Son of Jacopo del Sellaio, Arcangelo took over the family workshop following his father’s death in 1493. He assimilated Jacopo’s style and, eschewing the more Mannerist tendencies of his contemporaries, adopted a deliberately archaic approach to painting.