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The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori), often simply known as The Lives (Italian: Le Vite), is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older ...
In the 1550 and 1568 editions of the Lives Vasari insisted on drawings as documents which allowed the viewer to perceive the maniera of the great masters of painting and mentioned when he owned one or two drawings by a particular artist, such as at the end of his life of Filippo Lippi: ("Fra Filippo drew very well, as one can see in my own ...
Giorgio Vasari [a] (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer who is best known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of Western art-historical writing, and still much cited in modern biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers ...
Pope Paul III (Farnese) Names Cardinals and Distributes Benefices. In the Sala dei Cento Giorni, Vasari and his assistants work in an elaborate and fanciful manner.The narrative unfolds within an unusual illusionist space flooded with allegoric ornamentation and further by numerous figures in painted architecture surrounded by simulated sculpture.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 21:36, 9 November 2015: 2,487 × 3,715, 620 pages (41.56 MB): Astigmatique {{Book |Author={{Creator:Giorgio Vasari}} |Translator= |Editor= |Illustrator={{Creator:Giorgio Vasari}} |Title=Le vite de’ piu eccellenti pittori, scultori, et architettori |Subtitle= scritte et di nuovo Ampliate da M. Giorgio Vasari Pittore et Arch...
The Forge of Vulcan (c. 1564) by Giorgio Vasari. The Forge of Vulcan or Vulcan's Forge is an oil-on-copper painting by the Italian artist Giorgio Vasari, executed c. 1564, now in the Uffizi in Florence. [1] A copy painted c. 1565–1567 by Pier Candido is now in Windsor Castle as part of the Royal Collection.
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