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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 eventually... Read more
Giorgio Vasari
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (1511-1570) was an Italian...biographies of artists. Giorgio Vasari was born on July 30...crescendo in Michelangelo. Vasari is extremely partisan in that Venetians such as Giorgione and Titian are not given... Read more
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... Read more
Correggio (Antonio Allegri; 1489/94 – 1534)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...In the sixteenth century, Giorgio Vasari hailed Antonio Allegri (called...Correggio's unrivaled use of color, Vasari pointed out (perhaps unfairly...mere fraction have survived. Vasari described Correggio as, literally...began to circulate, and the Vasarian characterization of a ... Read more
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 throughout... Read more
Venice, Architecture in
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World VENICE, ARCHITECTURE IN VENICE, ARCHITECTURE IN. According to Giorgio Vasari, the first historiographer of Italian Renaissance art, the modern era penetrated into Venice only with the arrival of the Florentine...allusion that characterized the genre thereafter. Palladio's restrained interpretation of the temple ... Read more
Women and Art
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...his 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... Read more
Uffizi
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , 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... Read more
Il Rosso
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...difficulty finding a teacher to his liking since, as Giorgio Vasari tells us, "He had an opinion of his own in opposition...Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700 (1953). Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and... Read more
Early Modern Period: Art Historical Interpretations
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...the foundations of biography, rhetoric, and poetics. Giorgio Vasari (1511 – 1574), Italian writer and artist, launched...artists perfecting mimesis and approaching an ideal, Vasari wrote about individual genius, remarkable accomplishments... Read more

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Vasari, Giorgio
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Vasari, Giorgio ( b Arezzo, 30 July 1511...materials and techniques.) Vasari wrote from a particular aesthetic...above all Michelangelo , whom Vasari idolized and whose biography...artists then living, including Vasari's autobiography). The idea... Read more
Giorgio di Martini, Francesco di
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Giorgio di Martini, Francesco di (1439–1501/2). Sienese architect, theorist...penetrated by lunettes , but his architectural career is not well documented. Vasari held him in high regard. Bibliography Croix (1972); Frampton & Turner (1993); Giorgio di Martini (1967); Heydenreich (1996); Papini ... Read more
Giorgione
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...his pictures. Vasari , who says that Giorgione earned his nickname...x2019; painting. Giorgione was born in Castelfranco...and according to Vasari he trained with...his Lives (1550) Vasari attributed the S. Rocco painting to Giorgione, but in the second... Read more
Uffizi
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...painting is 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. Read more
Condivi, Ascanio
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...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... Read more
Pontelli, Baccio
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...x2013;6). He worked on the Ducal Palace at Urbino with F. di Giorgio Martini and Laurana from 1479, and settled in Rome c. 1481...Cancellaria (1480s). The enormous body of work attributed to him by Vasari seems to be spurious. Bibliography G. Fiore (1963); Heydenreich... Read more
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... Read more
Renaissance
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...architecture, 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 later a ‘... Read more
Bramante, Donato
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...knew Piero della Francesca ( c. 1410/20–1492) and Francesco di Giorgio at the Court of Federigo da Montefeltro (reigned 1444–82) in...Placzek (ed.) (1982); Patetta (1987); Serlio (1964); Jane Turner (1996); Vasari (1912–15 Read more

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The homes of Giorgio Vasari.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 119 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... Read more
Giorgio Vasari's teachers; sacred and profane art.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2007; 90 words ; 9780820488134 Giorgio Vasari's teachers; sacred and profane art. Cheney, Liana de Girolami. Peter...patrons had on the work of Florentine painter, architect, and writer Vasari (1511-74). Among the influences she finds are Dante's literary writings... Read more
Antonello da Messina at the Met.(Art)(The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; Looking up Antonello da Messina in Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters...his initial training in Rome, as Vasari evidently felt was necessary for...Antonello died in 1479, not, as Vasari would have it, in Venice, but in... Read more
(book review)
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 11/9/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...artists that goes back at least as far as Giorgio Vasari's great Lives of the Artists, first published in 1550. Vasari focused on biography in order to paint...themselves by the creation of their hands. Vasari clearly felt the necessity of attending... Read more
A Michelangelo discovery: Larry J. Feinberg discusses an unpublished sheet of drawings by Michelangelo that includes studies for the Sistine ceiling and a copy after a print by Mantegna.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...edition of his Lives of the Artists, Giorgio Vasari speaks with bemused admiration about...precise, counterfeiting of prints. Vasari describes at some length Michelangelo...were, in fact, forgeries, since, as Vasari goes on to report, Michelangelo... Read more
Art in Renaissance Italy.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 4/1/1997; ; 638 words ; The Italian Renaissance revisited Giorgio Vasari, in his Lives of the Artists of 1550, divided the art of the...ready for the wig and loincloth of choice. In contrast to Vasari's biographical approach, the authors emphasize the workshops... Read more
Richard Rezac: Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 10/1/2006; ; 507 words ; Giorgio Vasari's tale about how Paolo Uccello would sit at his desk late into the night, drawing obsessively, refusing his wife's entreaties to... Read more
Renaissance gothic at the national gallery.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...January. The beguiling old gossip Giorgio Vasari relates, in his biography of Masaccio...Masaccio's short life. One wishes Vasari's story was trustworthy, although...practical concerns and (which shocked Vasari most of all) so neglectful of his... Read more
Reconfiguring the Primavera: Battistina Appiano as patron.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...di Pierfrancesco de' Medici because Vasari first noted the painting, in a Medici...Florence, not at their Villa Castello, as Vasari and Horne maintained. Additionally...1635, Florence, Palazzo Pitti) and Giorgio Vasari's Cosimo I Studying the Plans for the...Apotheosis of Cosimo I (Fig. 5), also ... Read more
Self-portraits at the National Portrait Gallery.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...one's assumptions are confirmed. Giorgio Vasari's wide, vacuous peer is apt for...although Anguissola is praised by Vasari in his Lives. Lavinia's father...Fontana was a journeyman assistant to Vasari and the other Mannerist followers... Read more