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Giorgio Vasari
1511–1574 · Republic of Florence
- Born
- 1511 · Arezzo
- Died
- 1574 · Florence
32 works in the Collect24 Registry
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Giorgio Vasari was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer. He is known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, which covers artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
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Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer 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, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, although he is since regarded as including many factual errors, especially when covering artists from before he was born. Vasari was a Mannerist painter highly regarded both as a painter and architect in his day, but rather less so in later centuries. He was effectively what would later be called the minister of culture to the Medici court in Florence, and the Lives promoted, with enduring success, the idea of Florentine superiority in the visual arts. Vasari designed the Tomb of Michelangelo, his hero, in the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence, which was completed in 1578. Based on Vasari's text in print about Giotto's new manner of painting as a rinascita (rebirth), author Jules Michelet, in his Histoire de France (1835), suggested the adoption of Vasari's concept, using the term Renaissance (from French) to distinguish the cultural change. The term was adopted thereafter in historiography and remains in use.
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Selected registered works by Giorgio Vasari
Selected from 32 works by Giorgio Vasari in the Collect24 Registry.
Giorgio Vasari
Studies of a Male Nude, a Drapery, and a Hand, about 1555–1565
Red chalk, laid onto a piece of card
36 × 24.3 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum
C24-199672
Giorgio Vasari
Compositional Study for the Southeast Section of the Cupola of Florence Cathedral, about 1572
Pen and brown ink and brown wash over some traces of black chalk
41.3 × 21.7 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum
C24-196152
Giorgio Vasari
The Risen Christ Adored by Saints and Angels, 1566–68
Black chalk, pen and brown ink, and extensive white heightening (wash and point of brush), with incising on paper prepared with a brown wash.
41.9 × 26.5 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art
C24-191524
Giorgio Vasari
"Bearded Man Filling a Glass" and "Youth Running", about 1544–1545
Pen and brown ink and brown wash with touches of blue wash, heightened with white opaque watercolor, over traces of black chalk, on blue paper
J. Paul Getty Museum
C24-208843
Giorgio Vasari
Design for a Fountain with River Gods and Nymphs, 1511–74
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of leadpoint
42.5 × 28.5 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-527777
Giorgio Vasari
Design for the Ceiling Decoration in Vasari's House in Arezzo, 1531–74
Pen and brown ink, brush and rose-brown wash, over black chalk, and compass and ruled construction
34.3 × 24.1 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-590418
Giorgio Vasari
Saint Paul Speaking before King Agrippa (Acts 26), 1573
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk
32 × 21.3 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-576395
Giorgio Vasari
The First Fruits of the Earth Offered to Saturn, 1555–56
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of red chalk
17.2 × 39.2 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-555628
Giorgio Vasari
Design for a Fountain with Rivergods and Nymphs, 1511–74
Pen with medium and dark brown ink, brush and gray wash, highlighted with white gouache, over graphite. Traces of framing outlines in pen with brown and black ink
38.6 × 25 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-548415
Giorgio Vasari
Judith Decapitating Holofernes, 1511–74
Pen and brown ink, brown wash
15.4 × 12.4 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
C24-511563
Giorgio Vasari
Florentia kroner Cosimo I tronende på skyer, 1511-1574
Sortkridt, pen, brunt blæk og brun lavering
14.2 × 14.2 cm
SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
C24-297142
Giorgio Vasari
En mand i tyrkisk dragt og to mænd, der konverserer, 1511-1574
Sortkridt. Verso delvist indfarvet med sortkridt. Omrammet med pen og sort blæk
26.8 × 18 cm
SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
C24-291035
Museums and collections
Where works by Giorgio Vasari are registered
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
11 works
- Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
7 works
- J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
5 works
- Department of Paintings of the Louvre
France
3 works
- National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C., United States
2 works
- SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
Copenhagen, Denmark
2 works
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
1 work
- Gemäldegalerie Berlin
Germany
1 work
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