Ilario, near Montereggi. His
grandfather, Francesco, being a linen weaver, came to live nearer
Florence; his father, Agnolo, son of Francesco, followed the trade of a
tailor--hence Andrea's sobriquet, "del Sarto"--he took a house in Via
Gualfonda, in Florence, about 1487, with his wife Constanza, and here
Andrea was born, he being the eldest of a family of five--three girls
and two boys. From the tax papers of a few years later it is proved
that Andrea was born in 1487. His full name is Andrea d'Agnolo di
Francesco. It is by mistake that he has been called Vannucchi.
His parents were young, his father being only twenty-seven years of age
at Andrea's birth. They lived at that time in Val Fonda, where
Albertinelli had his shop, but in 1504 they removed to the popolo, or
parish, of S. Paolo. Boys were not allowed to be idle in those days,
but were apprenticed at an early age; thus Andrea, like most artists of
his time, was bound to a goldsmith. It would be interesting to
investigate the great influence of the guild of goldsmiths on the art
of the Renaissance.
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