Andrea del Sarto place of death Florence
Personal life
Andrea married Lucrezia (del Fede), widow of a hatter named Carlo, of Recanati, on 26 December 1512.  Lucrezia appears in many of his paintings, often as a Madonna.  However, Vasari describes her as "faithless, jealous, and vixenish with the apprentices".  She is similarly characterized in Robert Browning's poem.
Andrea died in Florence at age 44 during an outbreak of Bubonic Plague at the end of September 1530.  He was buried unceremoniously by the Misericordia in the church of the Servites.  In Lives of the Artists, Vasari claimed Andrea received no attention at all from his wife during his terminal illness.  However, it was well known at the time that plague was highly contagious, so it has been speculated that Lucrezia was simply afraid to contract the virulent and frequently-fatal disease.  If true, this well-founded caution was rewarded, as she survived her husband by 40 years.
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