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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:: 30506
Taking of Pisa
mk68
Fresco,
Florence,Palazzo Vecchio,
Salone del Cinquecento
1563-1565
Italy
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Painting ID:: 30510
Self-Portrait
mk68
Oil on wood
39 1/2"x31 1/2"
Florence,Uffizi,
1566-1568
Italy
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Painting ID:: 32563
Recreation by our Gallery
mk79
About 1558
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Painting ID:: 33232
Sala di Clement VII
mk83
Palazzo Vecchio
Florence
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Painting ID:: 38470
Portrat of Lorenzo de Medici
mk137
1533 oils on linen 90x72cm Galleria deglI Uffizi, Florence
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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: | Philips Wouwerman | George Henry Hall | Johan Christian Dahl | Piero Pollaiuolo | Aelst, Willem van |
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