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VASARI, Giorgio
Italian Mannerist Writer and Painter, 1511-1574
Italian painter, architect, and writer. Though he was a prolific painter in the Mannerist style, he is more highly regarded as an architect (he designed the Uffizi Palace, now the Uffizi Gallery), but even his architecture is overshadowed by his writings. His Lives of the Most Eminent Architects, Painters, and Sculptors (1550) offers biographies of early to late Renaissance artists. His style is eminently readable and his material is well researched, though when facts were scarce he did not hesitate to fill in the gaps. In his view, Giotto had revived the art of true representation after its decline in the early Middle Ages, and succeeding artists had brought that art progressively closer to the perfection achieved by Michelangelo.
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Painting ID:: 9436
The Prophet Elisha er
c. 1566
Tempera on wood, 40 x 29 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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Painting ID:: 9437
Allegory of the Immaculate Conception er
1541
Oil on wood, 58 x 39 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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Painting ID:: 9438
Portrait of Lorenzo the Magnificent wr
Oil on wood, 90 x 72 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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Painting ID:: 9439
Monument to Michelangelo ar
1570
Marble
Santa Croce, Florence
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Painting ID:: 9440
The Nativity wt
c. 1546
Oil on canvas
Galleria Borghese, Rome
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VASARI, Giorgio
Italian Mannerist Writer and Painter, 1511-1574
Italian painter, architect, and writer. Though he was a prolific painter in the Mannerist style, he is more highly regarded as an architect (he designed the Uffizi Palace, now the Uffizi Gallery), but even his architecture is overshadowed by his writings. His Lives of the Most Eminent Architects, Painters, and Sculptors (1550) offers biographies of early to late Renaissance artists. His style is eminently readable and his material is well researched, though when facts were scarce he did not hesitate to fill in the gaps. In his view, Giotto had revived the art of true representation after its decline in the early Middle Ages, and succeeding artists had brought that art progressively closer to the perfection achieved by Michelangelo.
. Related Artists to VASARI, Giorgio: | Joseph Highmore | Peter Jakob Horemans | Lemmen, Georges | Meckel, Adolf von | tchaikovsky |
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