The Florentine Wanderer: The Life and Legacy of Angelo Nardi da Razzo In the grand, sweeping narrative of the Baroque era, certain names shine with an undiminating brilliance, while others linger like a soft, evocative shadow across the canvas of history. Angelo Nardi da Razzo belongs to that second, more mysterious category—a painter whose brush captured the spiritual fervor and dramatic tension of the seventeenth century. Born in 1584 in the small Italian town of Vaglia, Nardi’s origins were rooted in a noble Florentine family that had been displaced by the rise of the Medici. This sense o…