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	NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vasari wrote from the viewpoint that art is an intellectual discipline practiced by individualistic geniuses, rather than a craft pursued by anonymous workers.
		Vasari designed, although he did not oversee the construction of, the Loggia in Arezzo, a huge office block built as a speculative investment by a local guild.
		Upon Vasari's death in 1574, his body was taken to Arezzo where he was buried in the tomb he had earlier prepared for his parents.
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	Reflections on Allegory-Excerpt-Vasari Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although Vasari describes Lorenzo as a goldsmith, he seems rather to have been a toolmaker, an artisan of modest means who, in his first catasto declaration of 1457, stated that he and his brother rented a workshop, and had no property other than the tools of their trade.
		Vasari himself records that, as a young man, Piero was much sought after as a designer of processions, and claims that he was the first too arrange them in the form of triumphal entries.
		Vasari identifies Filippo Strozzi the elder as the patron of this work, but since he died in 1491--which, on stylistic grounds, it is generally agreed is to early a date for the painting -- it seems likely that Vasari confused the two men, and that the patron was again the younger Filippo.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~baugh/bosch/R-AL-Ex-vasari.htm (1597 words)

	Appendix 5
		Vasari credits Uccello with two discoveries, claiming that he was the first who: "brought to perfection the method of representing buildings, to the tops of their cornices and roofs, in perspective from their plans and elevations.
		Vasari records that Gentile Bellini "represented the Grand Canal in perspective"; a scene with the Emperor Barbarossa "containing many fine perspectives"; a related scene in which a "palace and San Marco are drawn in perspective" and a naval scene with "boats drawn in perspective".
		Vasari refers to Mariotto Albertinelli's "foreshortenings or perspectives" as if the terms were interchangeable and praises his designs in grisaille: "especially a spiral staircase, drawn in perspective the difficulties of which he thoroughly understood".
	www.sumscorp.com /perspective/Vol3/ap5.htm (8637 words)

	GIORGIO VASARI - LoveToKnow Article on GIORGIO VASARI
		The paintings of Vasari were much admired by the rapidly degenerating taste of the 16th century; but they possess the smallest amount of merit, being in the main feeble parodies of the powerful works of Michelangelo.
		Many of his pictures still exist, the most important being the wall and ceiling paintings in the great hail of the Palazzo Veccbio in Florence, and his frescoes on the cupola of the cathedral, which, however, were not completed at the time of his death.
		The best edition of Vasaris works is that published at Florence by Milanesi (1878-1882), which embodies the valuable notes in the earlier edition by Le Monnier (1846); another, by Venturi, was begun in 1896.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VA/VASARI_GIORGIO.htm (687 words)

	Biography
		As a painter, Vasari was one of the most prolific decorators of his period, but he is not now highly regarded, his work representing the most in-bred and affected kind of Mannerism.
		Vasari was also the first important collector of drawings, using them partly as research material for his biographies, for the insight they gave into the creative process.
		Vasari's activities as painter and architect have been completely overshadowed by his role as the most important of all artistic biographers.
	www.wga.hu /bio/v/vasari/biograph.html (515 words)

	Requiem Aeternam - The Vasari Singers - Reviews
		What made their performance so compelling was not the kind of close, almost loving intimacy which is the hall-mark of the Vasari performance, but an almost impersonal detachment which renders the emotional impact of the work all the more intense.
		Vasari, a choir conducted by Jeremy Backhouse, are absolutely first class and give a well-nigh exemplary performance, possibly finer than its immediate rivals.
		The Vasari Singers' performances benefit from clear tone, but they are not always impeccably in tune and both pieces need more dynamic variety and fluidity to bring them alive.
	www.signumrecords.com /catalogue/sigcd503/reviews.htm (988 words)

	Giorgio Vasari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		GIORGIO VASARI, an admired and successful artist and architect in his own right, is celebrated today primarily for his pioneering work as one of Italy's premiere art historians.
		Vasari also executed major painting cycles for the Duomo [cathedral] of Florence and the Sala Regia [Royal Hall] at the Vatican.
		Vasari's modern fame, however, derives from his historic contribution to art history, Delle Vite de piu' Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori, ed Architettori [Lives of the Greatest Painters, Sculptors and Architects], published in Florence in 1550 and succeeded by a revised and enlarged edition in 1568.
	www.boglewood.com /cornaro/xvasari.html (235 words)

	Ruskin MP I Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was important to Vasari, and to his patron, Duke Cosimo de' Medici, that the process of the rebirth of the arts should begin with one Florentine and reach perfection with Michelangelo, another Florentine.
		Francis in the Bardi Chapel of the church of Santa Croce in Florence (Vasari, Le Vite, Testo II.37) and the Rucellai Madonna in Santa Maria Novella (Vasari, Le Vite, Testo II.40).
		For Vasari it was evidence of progress towards the perfection of Michelangelo - and the perfection of Florence under the rule of Duke Cosimo de' Medici.
	www.lancs.ac.uk /users/ruskin/empi/notes/icimb02.htm (321 words)

	Giorgio Vasari Biography / Biography of Giorgio Vasari Biography Biography
		Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was an Italian painter, architect, and author of "The Lives of the Most Celebrated Painters, Sculptors, and Architects." His book is the foundation of modern art historiography and the prototype for all biographies of artists.
		Vasari's career is well documented, the fullest source of information being the autobiography added to the 1568 edition of his Lives.
		Vasari had an extremely active career, but much of his time was spent as an impresario devising decorations for courtly festivals and similar ephemera.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-giorgio-vasari (232 words)

	Giorgio Vasari
		Vasari's Vite de' più eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori Italiani (1550-68, The Lives of the Artists) is perhaps the most important book on the history of art ever written.
		Giorgio Vasari was born in Arezzo in Tuscany, the son of an ornamental potter.
		Vasari's view of Michelangelo reflects a new element in the Renaissance perception of art - the discovery of the concept of genius.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /gvasari.htm (1368 words)

	Florence in the sixteenth Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is unlikely that Vasari would have written The Lives, his Autobiography and other works (in Italian Le Vite, Ragionamenti, Autobiografia) if he had not been firmly convinced that he was living in an era worthy of being immortalized for posterity.
		All the projects of the decade between 1555 and 1565 were assigned to Vasari who became the real superintendent, in the modern sense of the term, of the duchy's works, and to Ammannati.
		Vasari himself was well aware of the importance of these technical solutions and described them in the introductory chapter of The Lives.
	www.firenze.turismo.toscana.it /apteng/itinerari/500/52c.html (2259 words)

	Encyclopedia: Giorgio Vasari
		Giorgio Vasaris Self Portrait The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years.
		Julius III, né Gian Maria del Monte or Giovan Maria Giocci (September 10, 1487 - March 23, 1555) pope from February 7, 1550 to 1555, the last of the High Renaissance popes, was born at Rome, the son of a famous jurist.
		Many of Vasari's anecdotes have the ring of truth, although some indeed are too good to be true.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Giorgio-Vasari (3277 words)

	Art Bulletin, The: The painter's secret: Invention and rivalry from Vasari to Balzac - Giorgio Vasari - Honore de Balzac
		In fact, Vasari specifically expanded his account of Antonello's courtesies to Domenico in the second, revised edition of the Lives--further evidence of Vasari's determination to assimilate van Eyck's secret to a moralizing discourse of courtly obligation.
		Vasari, we are told, embroidering a tale he borrowed from Antonio Billi's biography of Castagno, sought to attribute the latter's harsh style to defects in his personality.
		As in the case of Vasari's van Eyck, Ridolfi's Antonello yields to the seductions of courtly behavior.
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		Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, Tuscany July 3, 1511 - Florence, June 27, 1571) was an Italian painter and architect, mainly known for his famous biographies of Italian artists.
		He built himself in 1547 a fine house in Arezzo, and spent much labour in decorating its walls and vaults with paintings.
		The work remains a classic, however it may be supplemented by the more critical research of modern days.
	www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/g/gi/giorgio_vasari.html (688 words)

	Art Bulletin, The: Giorgio Vasari: Architect and Courtier - Review
		Generally accurate and highly accessible, de Vere's 1912 translation gives the reader a sense of Vasari's style in the original, for it is sensitive to the periodic structure of the author's writing, to the rhythms and cadences of Vasari's prose.
		Whereas Vasari's book is a work of deep spirituality, rooted in the Bible, Joachim of Flora, and Dante, today's secularized art history is fueled by the inventions of aesthetics and historicism, by positivism and the imperfect attempts to make art history into a kind of science or to make it conform to a scientific method.
		Vasari wrote before the sharp distinction came to be made between fact and fiction in modern scientific historical writing.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Giorgio Vasari
		Vasari's lesser writings, his letters and "Ragionamenti", published in 1588 after his death, and the account of the decorations he prepared for the wedding of Francesco de' Medici, are contained in the Milanesi edition.
		During the last two years a large number of letters and documents by and relating to Vasari have been discovered; a summary of these private archives at Florence, belonging to Count Luciano Rasponi-Spinelli, was published in April, 1910.
		Vasari was a kinsman of Luca Signorelli, and Luca's words, "Study well, little kinsman", were remembered by him all his life, although spoken when he was only a child, and when his father submitted to the old painter some drawings by the little boy.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15274a.htm (647 words)

	Vasari, Giorgio -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		When still a child, Vasari was the pupil of Guglielmo de Marcillat, but his decisive training was in Florence, where he enjoyed the friendship and patronage of the Medici family, trained within the circle of Andrea…
		Uccello was long thought to be significant primarily for his role in establishing new means of rendering perspective that became a major component of the Renaissance style.
		The 16th-century biographer Giorgio Vasari said that Uccello was “intoxicated” by perspective.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9074874 (758 words)

	Ruskin MP I Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a painter and architect.
		For Vasari the process of rebirth began with Cimabue, called by him a Florentine nobleman.
		Vasari's version of art history, promoted by by his writing and by his foundation of the Accademia del Disegno in Florence in 1562, has remained influential ever since.
	www.lancs.ac.uk /users/ruskin/empi/notes/ivasari01.htm (245 words)

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		Among Vasari's major surviving paintings are murals in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, and the Vatican in Rome.
		Vasari's book offers his personal evaluation of the works of these artists, as well as discussions on the state of the arts.
		It is probable that this represents Vasari himself, the founder of the Academy.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/art/art4jun/art0627.html (7010 words)

	UBC Library. Fine Arts Division. Vasari Display.
		Giorgio Vasari is considered to be the first modern art historian.
		Vasari thought of art as a historical phenomena.
		While the cd-rom is based on the Italian editions of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, each treatise can be studied in its own as an example of early art criticism in the Renaissance.
	www.library.ubc.ca /finearts/vasari.html (342 words)

	Georgio Vasari: In any other place, at any other time, Georgio Vasari would have been the brightest star in the ...
		Vasari was justly famous (and amply rewarded) in his own time for both his art and architecture, but he has been regarded by history as second string (-- he didn't even have a Ninja Turtle named after him).
		Vasari invented the word "maniera" to praise the way his idol, Raphael, twisted human figures and altered visual geometry to unify pictorial composition and make his works more dynamic.
		Vasari emulated this style, and he and others who did the same have forever been known as "Mannerists", with the implication that they were simply facile copyists of Raphael's vision.
	www.mmdtkw.org /VVasari.html (432 words)

	The Vasari Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Vasari Society for a Fine Art Centre endeavours to secure for future generations a centre to encompass the arts as exemplified in the artist's collection of Canadian Master Sculptor, John Barney Weaver.
		Vasari said that he aimed at 'investigating the causes and roots of styles and why the arts improved or declined', and this idea of art following an evolutionary pattern of decay and revival has proven immensely influential throughout the centuries to follow.
		The Vasari trademark/logo has been designed with a plan to present a heroic fine art bronze to the United States of America as a memorial for those who died in the destruction of the World Trade Towers in New York.
	vasaricentre.ca /about.php (645 words)

	Pallen, Thomas: Vasari On Theatre
		Vasari's Lives—daunting because of its sheer magnitude—has remained relatively obscure to English-speaking theatre historians.
		While Vasari did not personally know the work of either Filippo Brunelleschi or Francesco d'Angelo (called Cecca), he discusses their inventions for staging mystery plays and street festivals; indeed, Pallen shows how the work of these two artists paved the way for all later Renaissance scenography.
		Pallen then deals with Vasari's references to and descriptions of the theatrical scenery and lighting effects of his time and the artists who created them.
	www.siu.edu /~siupress/titles/s99_titles/pallen_vasari.htm (364 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Giorgio Vasari (1511-1571) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter and architect,; mainly known for his famous biographies of Italian artists, was born at Arezzo on July 3,; 1511.
		The paintings of Vasari were much admired but some critics saw them as parodies of the works of Michelangelo.
		Many of his pictures still exist, the most important being the wall and ceiling paintings in the great hall of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, and his frescoes on the cupola of the cathedral, which, however, were not completed at the time of his death.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=674 (782 words)

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