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Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari , 1511-74, Italian architect, writer, and painter. He is best known for his entertaining biographies of artists, Vite de' più eccellenti architetti, pittori e scultori italiani (1550, rev. ed. 1568). The standard modern edition is that annotated by Gaetano Milanesi (1878), tr... Read more
Uffizi
Uffizi , palace in Florence, Italy, built in the 16th cent. by Giorgio Vasari for Cosimo I de' Medici as public offices. It houses the state archives of Tuscany and the Uffizi Gallery, one of the world's richest art collections. Besides the Florentine, all the Italian as well as the Dutch and ... Read more
Farnese
Farnese , Italian noble family that ruled Parma and Piacenza from 1545 to 1731. In the 12th cent. the Farnese held several fiefs in Latium. They became one of the most prominent families in Rome and were Guelph supporters of the papacy. In 1534, Alessandro Farnese became pope as Paul III . He... Read more
Italian art
Italian art works of art produced in the geographic region that now constitutes the nation of Italy. Italian art has engendered great public interest and involvement, resulting in the consistent production of monumental and spectacular works. In addition, Italian art has nearly always been closely ... Read more

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Vasari, Giorgio (1511–1574)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World VASARI, GIORGIO (1511 – 1574) VASARI, GIORGIO (1511 – 1574), Italian biographer, painter, and architect. Born in the Tuscan town of Arezzo, Giorgio Vasari was brought in his early years to Florence, where he...
Giorgio Vasari
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (1511-1570) was an Italian painter, architect, and author of "The Lives of the Most Celebrated Painters, Sculptors, and Architects." His book is the foundation of modern art historiography and the prototype...
Vasari, Giorgio
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Vasari, Giorgio (1511–74) Italian painter, architect, and biographer. Vasari's fame now rests on his history of Italian art, The Lives of the most excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550). This lively account...
Correggio (Antonio Allegri; 1489/94–1534)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...draftsman. In the sixteenth century, Giorgio Vasari hailed Antonio Allegri (called Correggio...which a mere fraction have survived. Vasari described Correggio as, literally...only to that of Raphael. See also Vasari, Giorgio . BIBLIOGR
Il Rosso
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...teacher to his liking since, as Giorgio Vasari tells us, "He had an opinion...The painter died in Paris. Vasari tells us that, filled with remorse...France, 1500-1700 (1953). Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Eminent Painters...
Luca Signorelli
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...was born in Cortona. According to Giorgio Vasari, who claimed a kinship with him...in 1441, but scholars now doubt Vasari, and a birth date in the late 1440s...repaying the loan. According to Vasari, Signorelli was widely admired...
Women and Art
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...Lives of the Artists (1568), Giorgio Vasari mentions a number of Flemish and...Bologna, is a notable exception. Vasari emphasizes her accomplishment in...artistry as a carver. According to Vasari, her relief of The Temptation of...
Mannerism
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...sixteenth century by the historian Giorgio Vasari and others to mean simply "style...negatively to mean routine, as in Vasari's reference to the late works...routine', it calls to mind Vasari's condemnation of Perugino. MODERN...
The Conception and Status of the Artist
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...operazione di mano (handiwork), and by Giorgio Vasari (1511 – 1574) in 1568 as...place, that could not be learned. For Vasari, a key element in the intellectual...Promoting this union of ideation and labor, Vasari maint
Antonello da Messina
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...influence on Venetian painters of the late 15th century. Giorgio Vasari, the 16th-century biographer, said that Antonello...Reading Two sound monographs on Antonello in English are Giorgio Vigni, All the Paintings of Antonello da Messina (1952...

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Vasari, Giorgio
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Vasari, Giorgio (1511–74). Italian painter...the painters being mentioned first.) Vasari wrote from a particular aesthetic viewpoint...Raphael , and above all Michelangelo , whom Vasari idolized and whose biography was the only...
Giorgio di Martini, Francesco di
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Giorgio di Martini, Francesco di (1439–...architectural career is not well documented. Vasari held him in high regard. Bibliography Croix...1972); Frampton & Turner (1993); Giorgio di Martini (1967); Heydenreich (1996...
Arts: Overview
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...refers is exemplified by the work of Giorgio Vasari (1511 – 1574). A painter...readily realized in invention. All of Vasari's preoccupations are reflected...greatly revised and expanded in 1568. Vasari's book marks the historical moment...
Cycles
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...Villani (c. 1275 – 1348). A later example is Giorgio Vasari's (1511 – 1574) theory of cycles in the...art in his Lives of the Artists (1550 and 1568). Vasari viewed the history of art as a long series of advances...
Uffizi
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...particularly well represented, although the collection also contains sculptures, drawings, and Flemish, French, and Dutch paintings. The building, the Uffizi palace, was designed by Giorgio Vasari c. 1560 as offices for the Medici family.
Condivi, Ascanio
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...only claim to fame is his Life of Michelangelo , published in Rome in 1553. Three years earlier the first edition of Giorgio Vasari's Lives had appeared, and Michelangelo seems to have taken exception to some of the statements made there. Condivi...
academy
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...academy was not set up until 1563, when the Accademia del Disegno was founded in Florence. It was the brainchild of Giorgio Vasari , whose aim was to emancipate artists from control by the guilds, and to confirm the rise in social standing they...
Renaissance
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...and music of that period. ‘Renaissance’ was first used alone in the 19th cent., though Giorgio Vasari (1550) saw a ‘rinascità delle arti’ in his own time, and Voltaire two centuries...
Ricci, Ostilio
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...mention under the title “ Intorno ad una leva ad argano, ” is now apparently lost. A manuscript of Giorgio Vasari (Rome, Biblioteca Angelica, n. 2220) mentions Ricci as solver of a peculiar geometrical question. BIBLIOGRAPHY...
Giorgione
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Giorgione ( Giorgio da Castelfranco ) ( c. 1477...represented in his pictures. Vasari , who says that Giorgione...Venice, and according to Vasari he trained with Giovanni...edition of his Lives (1550) Vasari attributed the S. Rocco...

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Giorgio Vasari: Storico e critico.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Mario Pozzi and Enrico Mattioda. Giorgio Vasari: Storico e critico. Biblioteca...created it. In many scholarly works Vasari's overarching themes are ignored...misunderstood, or misrepresented. In Giorgio Vasari storico e critico, Mario Pozzi...
Giorgio Vasari: Art and History.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words ; Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Painters, Sculptors...advice of historians and litterati in Vasari's circle at the court of the granddukes...artists from the time of Giotto until Vasari's contemporaries. It is the foundation...
Books: Turning artists into heroes Martin Gayford reassesses the achievement of Giorgio Vasari, an unremarkable painter and architect but a revolutionary biographer
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 12/15/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari tr by Gaston de Vere Everyman...however, was the achievement of Giorgio Vasari and his book, The Lives of the...considerable extent the work of Giorgio Vasari - who ex pressed the growing self...
An exemplary humanist hybrid: Vasari's "Fraude" with reference to Bronzino's "Sphinx." (Giorgio Vasari and Agnolo di Cosimo a.k.a. Bronzino)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...fantasia) that caught the interest of Giorgio Vasari. It was, however, only referred to in passing by Vasari in a largely allegorizing description...of the Painters (Le Vite). Overall, Vasari's nearly contemporary appraisal makes...
The modern artist as historian, courtier, and saint: typology and art history from Vasari to Pound.(Ezra Pound, Giorgio Vasari)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: CLIO; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...is deemed the first text of art history: Giorgio Vasari's 1550 Lives of the Artists. (4) As Vasari's text adapts and secularizes medieval...consequently a new identity for the modern artist. Vasari is the first to see his age as a rinascita...
The homes of Giorgio Vasari.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 451 words ; 0820474940 The homes of Giorgio Vasari. Cheney, Liana. Peter Lang Publishing...own use. Focusing on the houses of Vasari in Arezzo and Florence, Cheney traces...and iconography and the relationship Vasari had with his homes over time. She...
Giorgio Vasari's teachers; sacred and profane art.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2007; 411 words ; 9780820488134 Giorgio Vasari's teachers; sacred and profane art. Cheney, Liana de Girolami...patrons had on the work of Florentine painter, architect, and writer Vasari (1511-74). Among the influences she finds are Dante's literary...
Crónica renacentista.(Las vidas de los más excelentes arquitectos, pintores y escultores italianos desde Cimabúe a nuestros tiempos, libro de Giorgio Vasari)(Artículo breve)
Magazine article from: Epoca; 12/30/2005; 452 words ; ...excelentes arquitectos, pintores y escultores italianos desde Cimabue a nuestros tiempos. Giorgio Vasari. Ctedraa. 285 pgs. El trabajo de Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) publicado en 1550 en Florencia es una de las mejores fuentes de informacin...
Vasari on Theatre. (Reviews).
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; Thomas A. Pallen. Vasari on Theatre Carbondale and Edwardsville...Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Giorgio Vasari describes a number of pageants and...biographies appear in his work. To make Vasari's references to theatrical practices...
Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...Pater's Renaissance). To date, Giorgio Vasari has been Barolsky's gravitational...Giotto's Father and the Family of Vasari's Lives. Published back to back...s approach makes it clear that Vasari's narrative range and literary...