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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 ...
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 ...
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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 .
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.
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The figure blew a jet of water that spun a whirligig with four vanes in the form of butterfly wings, according to Giorgio Vasari's description. [5] According to James Draper, Rustici's figure drew inspiration from the mid-fifteenth century gilt-bronze fountain Winged Infant now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art . [ 6 ]