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The Libro de' Disegni (Italian for Book of Drawings) was a collection of drawings gathered, sorted, and grouped by Giorgio Vasari whilst writing his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.
Vasari was born prematurely on 30 July 1511 in Arezzo, Tuscany. [6] Recommended at an early age by his cousin Luca Signorelli, he became a pupil of Guglielmo da Marsiglia, a skillful painter of stained glass.
In response Vasari with input from Borghini completed numerous drawings to visualize the design. The Last Judgment. Vasari began the work in 1572. Brunelleschi had anticipated that access would be needed to the interior surface of the dome by installing iron rings from which scaffolding could be hung.
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 ...
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.
The painting was commissioned by Vasari's patron Ottaviano de' Medici, and is a posthumous portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici, the ruler of the Republic of Florence, who had died in 1492. The portrait is similar in style to the one of Cosimo the Elder by Pontormo .
Madonna Vasari. Virgin and Child is an unfinished c.1527-1528 oil on panel painting by Parmigianino, now in the Courtauld Gallery in London. As it is usually identified with one which Giorgio Vasari sketched in Bologna and later bought for himself, it is sometimes also known as the Vasari Madonna. [1]
The painting depicts a personification of Patience.The semi-nude female figure, her arms held tight across her body perhaps in modesty or "huddling" [2] and "shivering" [3] in the cold, gazes down watching as a water clock slowly erodes a stone inscribed with the Latin DIVTVRNA TOLERANTIA or "abiding patience", which is likely to be a reference to Cicero's De Inventione.