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Giorgio Vasari
1511-74
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:: 26757
Self-Portrait
mk52
1566-8
Oil on wood
100.5x80cm
Uffizi,Florence
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Painting ID:: 29858
The Immaculate Conception
mk67
Oil on panel
22 13/16x15 3/4in
Uffizi,Gallery
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Painting ID:: 29859
Portrait of Alessandro de' Medici
mk67
Oil on panel
61 13/16x44 7/8in
Uffizi
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Painting ID:: 29860
The Temptation of St.Jerome
mk67
Oil on panel
66 9/16x48 7/16in
Pitti,Palatine Gallery.
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Painting ID:: 29861
Portrait of Lorenzo the Magnificent
mk67
Oil on panel
35 7/16x28 3/8in
Uffizi,Gallery
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Giorgio Vasari
1511-74
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 Giorgio Vasari: | Master of the Housebook | Orchardson, Sir William Quiller | Lorenzo Tiepolo | Antonio Fabres y Costa | Horatio Walker |
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