Feltrini, Andrea

According to Giorgio Vasari, a 16th-century biographer of artists, Andrea studied with Cosimo Rosselli and Lorenzo Luzzo, whose names he appended to his own. He learned of the archaeological classicism dominant in Rome from Luzzo. He mastered the vocabulary of Classical motifs, especially the grotesques inspired by examples in the ruins of the Domus Aurea. Vasari credited him with first using grotesques in sgraffito decorations of palace facades. He was popular in Florence, providing such decoration to houses, in what was believed to be the fashion of imperial Rome.