Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari (July 30th 1511 with Arezzo - June 27th 1574 with Florence) is a painter, an architect and a writer Italy N author of the Vite , first collection of history of Article.

Biography

Born in a modest family, on the recommendation of his cousin Luca Signorelli, he east becomes the pupil of Guglielmo da Marsiglia, a skilful painter of Vitrail.

To 16 years, the cardinal Silvio Passerini sends it to continue his studies with Florence, close to Andrea del Sarto and his pupils Rosso Fiorentino and Jacopo Pontormo.

Its education of humanistic is not neglected and it meets Michel-Angel whose model of painting influenced it.

In 1529, he visits Rome and studies work of Raphaël and other artists of the Roman High-Rebirth. Its own paintings mannerists were more admired during its life afterwards.

He is employed by the Masters of the houses of the Médicis family in Florence and with Rome and he also works, inter alia, in Naples, in Arezzo.

Several of its work still exist, of most important, paintings of the walls and the ceiling in large Room of Cosme Ier of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, going back to 1555, with the unfinished frescos inside the vast cupola of Duomo, finished by Federigo Zuccaro with the assistance of Giovanni Balducci.

It organizes the decoration of the Studiolo of François I {{er}} of Palazzo Vecchio, more as directing of the artistic productions which must appear there that as producing artist of works.

Its architectural production is more important than that of painter. The loggia of the Offices energy of Palazzo Vecchio and leading to the Arno opening a sight at the end of its long narrow court is a single piece of town planning which functions like a public place, the Piazzale of the Offices, single street of the Rebirth with only one architectural treatment.

It is, as from 1553, a close relation of the Médicis in Florence and founds the Art school of Florence in 1563, with the large large-duke and Michel-Angel like first directors of the establishment and of 36 artists chosen like members.

In March 1565, he writes, for the marriage of François de Médicis and Jeanne of Austria, the Mascarade of the genealogy of the gods , of which he publishes the booklet.
La even year, it conceives with Florence the '' Corridoio '' connecting the Palazzo Vecchio to the Palais Pitti, builds it in 5 months financed by Cosme I {{er}} and inaugurated for the marriage of his/her François son. He will make it possible the Médicis to circulate without escort and going down in the street to cross the Arno by the Ponte Vecchio, while admiring the many paintings which decorate it (many self-portraits since Léopold de Médicis) and the city by his windows.

He also renovates the medieval churches Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce, and transforms the Jubé and the Chaire in the taste mannerist of his time.

In Rome, Vasari works with Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and Bartolomeo Ammanati for the Giulia Villa of the pope Jules III.

Vasari appreciated during all its life, piled up a considerable fortune. In 1547, it makes to build house with Arezzo (maintaining a museum which is devoted to him), and spends much of work by decorating the walls and the vaults. He is elected with the municipal council and priori of his birthplace, and is finally high with the supreme title of Gonfalonier.

Writer also, he is the author of the invaluable collection entitled the lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects (Quickly the de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori E architettori) (1560-1570). This work is of an major importance, because it poses the bases of the first methodological approaches of the Histoire of art - (historical approach and biographical method).

Vasari, the Georges with to do everything Michel-Angel, fifteen centuries after the minister of Auguste, is the Mécène fame. He made and demolishes the reputations. Hateful painter, architect without taste, judge without equity, Jules Romain of criticism and Tuscany, Vasari are not less one of the most invaluable Italians of the Rebirth, and his book one of the treasures which one owes in Italy. | Andre Suarès, the Voyage of the condottiere , p. 362

The Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects

See also: Quickly the

Quickly the de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori E architettori (1550-1568).
Published first once in 1550, it is the subject of one second edition in 1568. The first edition comprised, actually, only the lives of the authors died during the writing of its work. However an exception came to cancel the rule, it is that of Michel-Angel which appeared in it already at the time of the first edition. Giorgio Vasari orders there the artists who preceded it or who are contemporary for him from the historical point of view. It gathers data, so much on the artists than on their works (biographical investigations, catalogs of works, anecdotes and legends). It is the first, in the Vite , to use the term Renaissance to qualify its time (" rinascimento of bleated maniera" incarnated by Raphaël and Michel-Angel of which the goal and the imitation of work of old and who appear according to him in second half of the 12th century). This work appears, today, like one of the elements founders of the Histoire of art.
It is of Vasari that would come the " term; gothique" , comparing the strange architecture of the Middle Ages with the cruelty of the people of the Goths.

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