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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:: 81960
The Garden of Gethsemane
Date ca. 1570(1570)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 143.5 x 127 cm (56.5 x 50 in)
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Painting ID:: 82174
Vulcan's Forge
Date 1567-68
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 38 x 28 cm
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Painting ID:: 85787
Vulcans Forge
1567-68
Medium Oil on canvas <-?->Oil on copper
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Painting ID:: 89769
The Annunciation
between 1564(1564) and 1567(1567)
Medium oil on panel
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Painting ID:: 89809
Perseus and Andromeda
between 1570(1570) and 1572(1572)
Medium oil on slate
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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: | Thomas Blanchet | William Garl Brown | Thomas Ruckle | Victor Westerholm | Thomas Fearnley |
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