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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 ...
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 ...
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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 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.
Six Tuscan Poets is an oil-on-panel painting by the Florentine visual artist and writer Giorgio Vasari, created in 1544.The poets depicted in the painting from left to right are Cristoforo Landino, Marsilio Ficino, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante Alighieri, and Guido Cavalcanti. [1]
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 .