THE DAILY PIC (#1601): It’s not often I come across Renaissance art on a trek through Chelsea galleries. On a recent reconnoiter, however, I discovered this 16 th-century painting, attributed to a ...
In 1541, Venetian nobleman Giovanni Corner was riding high. Still in his thirties, Corner occupied a lofty position in the Republic’s governing body and had recently purchased a Renaissance-style ...
More than 200 years after a ceiling painted by the Tuscan artist Vasari was dismembered and sold on the antiquarian market, it is (almost) whole again. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reported from Venice Over ...
The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art. By Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney. Norton; 432 pages; $29.95 and £23.99. TOWARDS the end of his life Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most ...
The season of Mannerism shines in Tuscany with the artistic production of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Andrea Del Sarto, Jacopo Pontormo, Baccio Bandinelli, Rosso Fiorentino and Giorgio Vasari. The life ...
In 1568, the Italian historian Giorgio Vasari published a biography on the Venetian painter Giorgione in which he complains that his subject “thought of nothing save making figures according to his ...
In November 1966, torrential rains sent the Arno River pouring over its banks and flooding the streets of Florence. The surging waters damaged or destroyed thousands of paintings, frescoes and ...
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