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Hace 3 días · 1550 Edition of Vasari's the Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects · Fordham Art History.
13 de may. de 2024 · As is often the case with Renaissance artists, most of the modern information about Botticelli’s life and character derives from Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, & Architects, as supplemented and corrected from documents.
- Sandro Botticelli was one of the greatest painters of the Florentine Renaissance. His Birth of Venus (c. 1485) and Primavera (c. 1480; Spring) are...
- Sandro Botticelli was born Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi to a father who was a tanner. Sandro had an elder brother, Giovanni, a pawnbroker who was...
- Sandro Botticelli’s father apprenticed him to a goldsmith after his schooling was finished. But, since Sandro preferred painting, his father placed...
- The cause of Sandro Botticelli’s death in 1510 has not been widely written about. Biographer Giorgio Vasari described Botticelli as impoverished an...
13 de may. de 2024 · The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari, 1568. Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York As well as being a painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari is best known as the father of art history. His most important work is undoubtedly the Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects.
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1 de may. de 2024 · Sofonisba Anguissola, late Renaissance painter best known for her portraiture. She was one of the first women artists to establish an international reputation. Michelangelo was a mentor, and Philip II of Spain invited her to be a court painter. Read more about Anguissola’s life and career.
23 de abr. de 2024 · Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, and architect who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Many of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in the world, including the ceiling frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, the Pieta, and David.
- The frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (1508–12) in the Vatican, which include the iconic depiction of the creation of Adam interpreted...
- Michelangelo first gained notice in his 20s for his sculptures of the Pietà (1499) and David (1501) and cemented his fame with the ceiling frescoes...
- Michelangelo painted the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel not lying down as sometimes described but standing on an extensive scaffold,...
- Many writers have described Michelangelo as the archetype of a brooding and difficult artist, and, although he was indeed hot-tempered, his charact...
- The Renaissance man is an ideal that developed in Renaissance Italy from one of its most-accomplished representatives, Leon Battista Alberti, who s...
8 de may. de 2024 · But Vasari was a big Leonardo fan, and may not have wanted to demolish the artist’s work; he even praised it highly in his book, The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and ...
Hace 1 día · Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience.
