Portraits of Michelangelo over the ... Sep 14, 2008
According to Giorgio Vasari, there were also only four contemporary portraits of the great master, all taken from life ... Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Artists. (Suite101.com)
Learn Little-Known Art Facts Jul 5, 2008
Q. According to art historian Giorgio Vasari, which painting was carried to the sound of trumpets and amid scenes of great rejoicing in solemn procession from [the artist s] house through the streets of Florence. A. The Santa Trinita Madonna (c. (Suite101.com)
Renaissance Portrait: An Overview Jun 10, 2008
Painter, architect and biographer Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) noted (perhaps erroneously) that Giotto di Bondone (1266/76-1337) was the first artist to execute autonomous portraits. According to the humanist poet Petrarch (1304-1374), such "modern" works were characterized by their , ability to evoke emotion and transportable nature. (Suite101.com)
Italian Artists Nicknames May 24, 2008
European Renaissance Artists Are Better Known by Alternate Names. Famous Western artists in 13th to 17th centuries have celebrated nicknames more famous than their given names. (Suite101.com)
About Michelangelo's Nose May 23, 2008
Lives of the Artists, "" by Giorgio Vasari. The copyright of the article About Michelangelo's Nose in Renaissance Art is owned by. (Suite101.com)
Renaissance Artist Nicknames May 15, 2008
This Italian Early Renaissance painter of the Florentine school prompted historian Giorgio Vasari to write in Life of Uccello :Uccello's wife told people that he stayed up all night in his study working out the vanishing points of his perspective, and that when she called him to come to bed he would say: "Oh what a lovely thing this perspective is!". 3. (Suite101.com)
Finally, a retrospective for Pintoricchio Feb 29, 2008
If we were to believe the 16th-century Florentine art historian Giorgio Vasari, Pintoricchio was simply lucky to have enjoyed the success he did - an unlikely scenario, given the intensity of the artistic competition in Italy in the late 15th and early 16th century. Vasari, of course, tended to denigrate anything that did not emanate from Florence. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Sculptor John Bisbee works exclusively with nails Jan 20, 2008
Porter, Bisbee's mother, says she's come to understand her son by reading "The Lives of Artists," a book written by 16th-century artist Giorgio Vasari. "It describes people just like John," says Porter. (Boston Globe)
Mona Lisa mystery solved Jan 16, 2008
Del Giocondo was first named as the likeness in the painting by Italian writer Giorgio Vasari in 1550, who also dated the work at between 1503 and 1506, the university said. But because Vasari relied on anecdotal evidence, there was always doubts about the identification, and Leonardo is not known to have made any notes about the model's identity himself. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
German Scholar Says Da Vinci's `Mona Lisa' Is Indeed Lisa, Reuters Reports Jan 15, 2008
Lisa del Giocondo was first linked to the work in 1550 by Italian writer Giorgio Vasari, though there had been doubts about his reliability, the library said. The painting is on display at the Louvre museum in Paris. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
German experts crack Mona Lisa ID Jan 15, 2008
The woman was first linked to the painting in around 1550 by Italian official Giorgio Vasari, the library said, but added there had been doubts about Vasari's reliability and had made the comments five decades after the portrait had been painted. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- News)
Cracking a Real-Life Da Vinci Code Oct 25, 2007
"Cerca Trova" seek and you shall find is shown on a five-century-old fresco by Giorgio Vasari, "Battle of Marciano in the Chiana Valley," in the council hall of Florence's Palazzo Vecchio ... He has proof, he says, that Giorgio Vasari, the artist who renovated this hall in 1563 and painted the mural that covers it today, was an admirer of Leonardo's and had "saved" other works of his behind interior walls. (Time.com)
Search is on for lost Leonardo fresco Oct 24, 2007
The search for the masterpiece was given new impetus about 30 years ago, when Seracini noticed a cryptic message on a fresco in the hall by Giorgio Vasari, a 16th-century artist famed for chronicling Renaissance artists' labors. "Cerca, trova" "seek and you shall find" said the words on a tiny green flag in the Battle of Marciano in the Chiana Valley. (USA Today -- Tech)
Goodnight Siena Oct 24, 2007
No, it made him famous, complains the 16th-century art writer Giorgio Vasari. Sodoma's paintings, sadly, are clogged religious daubs that don't live up to his reputation, but his drawings of the swooning St Catherine have an intensity that stands out. (Guardian Unlimited)
Flemish Artist Jan van Eyck Sep 29, 2007
A common misconception about van Eyck, which dates back to the 16th-century writings of the Tuscan historiographer Giorgio Vasari, is that van Eyck himself created oil painting. It is however true that he perfected new and remarkable effects with the technique of oil painting, blending realism with brilliant colors, and he could recreate any emotion. (Suite101.com)
'Becoming Mona Lisa': A historian talks about an artwork made pop icon Jul 25, 2007
Giorgio Vasari, Leonardo's near contemporary, never saw the painting but in 1547 did mention the smile ("more divine than human"), giving it less space than her eyebrows (whose sparseness later dismayed Stendhal and George Sand). The sitter, he explained, was Lisa, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Missing mistressA fresco fragment on display in Italy revives a Papal scandal Jul 22, 2007
The famous art historian and scholar Giorgio Vasari writing in the second edition of his Lives of the Artists in 1568 mentioned that Pinturicchio's painting was "over the door of a room in the Apostolic Palace". It was, said Vasari, "a portrait of Signora Giulia Farnese with the countenance of Our Lady, and in the same picture the head of Pope Alexander adoring her". (BBC News)
'Dürer and Italy': A master's impact on Renaissance art May 19, 2007
By the mid-16th century, when Giorgio Vasari published his "Lives," D. rer's effect was so ubiquitous as to be impossible to ignore. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Which Early Painters Are These? Apr 14, 2007
Which Early Painters Are These. Can You Identify These Renaissance Painters. (Suite101.com)
Italian women of easel virtue Mar 24, 2007
To emphasize these female accomplishments, exhibit co-curator and museum senior curator Jordana Pomeroy divides the show into "Giorgio Vasari and the Renaissance Virtuosa," "Education and Training," "Marketing Strategies," "Patrons and Power" and "Public Identity." Each grouping intensifies the previous one until "Public Identity" -- in the last gallery -- with its overly large portraits and dramatic historic works (such as Sirani's "Portia Wounding Her Thigh") explosively ends it. Page 1 of 2. (Washington Times)
Forensic science in the pursuit of art Mar 1, 2007
This one had disappeared after another artist, Giorgio Vasari, was commissioned to paint new murals in the building. Pedretti asked Seracini if he could help in the hunt by applying his knowledge of cutting-edge medical equipment. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Has tomb been found of Mona Lisa model? Jan 20, 2007
She has been linked to the painting - known in Italian as "La Gioconda" - because Giorgio Vasari, a 16th century artist and biographer of Leonardo and other artists, wrote that Leonardo painted a portrait of del Giocondo's wife. In addition, del Giocondo was a neighbor and acquaintance of the artist's father, Piero da Vinci, Pallanti said. (Buffalo News -- National)
Mona Lisas final resting place? Jan 20, 2007
Tradition links Gherardini to "La Gioconda," as the painting is known in Italian, because Giorgio Vasari, a 16th-century artist and biographer of Leonardo and other artists, wrote that da Vinci painted a portrait of del Giocondo's wife. Pallanti, who has written a book about the Mona Lisa, also points out that del Giocondo was a neighbor and acquaintance of the artist's father, Piero da Vinci. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Hunt for Da Vinci painting will resume Jan 14, 2007
"Cerca, trova" "seek and you shall find" said the words on a tiny green flag in the "Battle of Marciano in the Chiana Valley," one of the military scenes painted by the 16th-century artist Giorgio Vasari. Between 2002 and 2003, radar and X-ray scans allowed Seracini and his team to find a cavity behind the fresco that is the right size to cocoon Leonardo's work, which was long thought to have been destroyed when Vasari renovated the hall in the mid-16th century. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
Can researchers crack real life da Vinci mystery? Jan 14, 2007
This photo reproduction made available Monday, June 20, 2005 by arts diagnostics company Editech, shows the slogan 'Cerca Trova' (Seek and you shall find) on the five-century-old fresco by Giorgio Vasari 'Battle of Marciano in the Chiana Valley', in the council hall of Florence's Palazzo Vecchio, Italy ... Cerca, trova "seek and you shall find" said the words on a tiny green flag in the "Battle of Marciano in the Chiana Valley," one of the military scenes painted by the 16th-century artist... (Globe and Mail)
Hunt for lost Leonardo Da Vinci painting to resume in Florence Jan 13, 2007
"Cerca, trova" "seek and you shall find" said the words on a tiny green flag in the "Battle of Marciano in the Chiana Valley," one of the military scenes painted by 16th-century artist Giorgio Vasari. Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
1M pound lost masterpiece found in pensioner's spare bedroom Nov 14, 2006
Giorgio Vasari, his 16th-century biographer, said that he was a rare and perfect talent and that he prayed each time he took up a brush. As well as decorating San Marco, he worked on projects in the Vatican. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
Mona Lisa was a mom Sep 27, 2006
In his book about the painting, British historian Donald Sassoon notes Giorgio Vasari, a biographer of Leonardo, wrote in 1586 that Mona Lisa was entertained by clowns and musicians to make her smile. But over the years, her smile has come to be seen as enigmatic, and dozens of theories have been put forward to explain it. (Globe and Mail)
Fresh start in lost Leonardo quest Aug 27, 2006
That suggestive motto, Cerca Trova, is inscribed on a soldier's banner in a fresco by Giorgio Vasari at the Hall of Five Hundred in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. It was on the same wall, Seracini believes, that Leonardo started The Battle of Anghiari half a century earlier. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Tweaking antiquity Aug 25, 2006
Sixteenth-century writer Giorgio Vasari claimed that painters in Florence emphasized drawing and those in Venice cared more about color. Well, there is careful underdrawing beneath the colorful surfaces of these Venetian oil paintings. (Howard County Times, MD)
Drawn to excellence (Joanna Shaw-Eagle) May 13, 2006
The page is part of the legendary book put together by Giorgio Vasari, one of the Western world's first systematic private collectors. Where else can visitors see not only major drawings from 1340 to the 17th century but also first-class examples of 17th- and 18th-century greats such as Rembrandt van Rijn -- who literally "drew" with light in the landscapes shown here -- and the comparably light-filled brown penned- and washed-works by the 18th-century Italian Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. (Washington Times)
The Secrets Of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript Feb 18, 2006
Giorgio Vasari told the story that when Verrochio saw Leonardo's work he was so amazed that he resolved never to touch a brush again. Between 1499 and 1516 (the Nomadic Period), Leonardo worked for a number of people, travelling around Italy doing several commissions, before moving to France in 1516 accepting the invitation of Franois I, King of France, to move to the Manoir du Cloux, near Ambroise, now known as Chteau du Clos Luc. (Softpedia)
