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Arezzo

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Arezzo , city (1991 pop. 91,626), capital of Arezzo prov., Tuscany, central Italy. It is an agricultural trade center and has machine, clothing, gold, and jewelry industries. Arezzo was an Etruscan town, later became a Roman military station and colony, and was made (11th cent.) a free commune. Siding with the Ghibellines, it was defeated (1289) at Campaldino by Florence, to which it passed definitively in 1384. In Roman times the famous red-clay Arretine vases were made there. Arezzo was a center of learning and the arts in the Middle Ages; Guido d'Arezzo, Petrarch, Aretino, and Vasari were born there. The city retains much of its medieval character. Noteworthy buildings include the Gothic cathedral (1286-1510); the Gothic Church of San Francesco (14th cent.), with frescoes of the Legend of the Holy Cross executed (1452-66) by Piero della Francesca; the Romanesque Church of Santa Maria della Pieve (1330); Bruni Palace (15th cent.), which now houses an art gallery and museum; and Vasari's mansion (decorated by Vasari in 1540).

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Margarito of Arezzo

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Margarito of Arezzo (or Margaritone of Arezzo) (active c.1262). Italian painter, active in Arezzo. He is one of the very few 13th-century Italian painters and the only early Aretine by whom we have signed works (examples are in the National Gallery, London, and the National Gallery, Washington). His paintings are clumsy, but they have something of the vividness and lucid brevity of a comic strip. Vasari, who also came from Arezzo, included a biography of Margarito in his Lives (saying he was an architect as well as a painter), and this is virtually the only source of knowledge on him, although a document of 1262 probably refers to him.

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