italianartsociety:By Anne Leader Painter, architect, collector, and influential author Giorgio Vas

italianartsociety: By Anne Leader Painter, architect, collector, and influential author Giorgio Vasari died on this day in 1574 in Florence. A successful painter and architect in the service of Grand Duke Cosimo I de’Medici, Vasari is best known today for his Lives of the Artists, a collection of biographies from Cimabue through his autobiography. Published in two editions (1550/1568), the text has had a profound impact on the development of connoisseurship, art history, and Italian Renaissance studies. Reference: Julian Kliemann and Antonio Manno. “Vasari.” Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. St. Luke Painting the Virgin, after 1565, fresco, Santissima Annunziata, Florence Self-Portrait, between 1550 and 1567. Florence: Uffizi. Last Judgment, 1572-9, Florence: Duomo. Cosimo I de’ Medici among the Artists of his Court (1563), fresco ceiling painting by Giorgio Vasari, Sala dei Cinquecento, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence; Photo credit: Scala/Art Resource, NY -- source link

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