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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:: 90325
The Annunciation
between 1570(1570) and 1571(1571)
Medium oil on poplar
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Painting ID:: 92672
The Nativity
Date c. 1546(1546)
Medium oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 94915
The Mutiliation of Uranus by Saturn
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Painting ID:: 96269
Justice
1542(1542)
Medium oil on panel
cyf
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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: | Charles Wellington Furse | Samuel John Peploe | Jean - Leon Gerome | fritz thaulow | Lodewyck Toeput |
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