Giorgio Vasari
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Giorgio Vasari was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideologic
Portrait by Jacopo Zucchi, c. 1571–1574 (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
Six Tuscan Poets by Giorgio Vasari, c. 1544; from left to right: Cristoforo Landino, Marsilio Ficino, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante Alighieri, and Guido Cavalcanti
The Garden of Gethsemane by Giorgio Vasari
The Uffizi Loggia
Giotto
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Giotto di Bondone, known mononymously as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period. Giotto's cont
Giorgio Vasari
…designed the Tomb of Michelangelo, his hero, in the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence, which was completed in 1578. Based on Vasari's text in print about Giotto's new manner of painting as a rinascita (rebirth), author Jules Michelet, in his Histoire de France (1835), suggested the adoption of Vasari's concept…
Portrait by Andrea di Bonaiuto, c. 1366
One of the Legend of St. Francis frescoes at Assisi, the authorship of which is disputed
Drawing of Giotto's lost mosaic Navicella, made about 1420 and once owned by Vasari
Full-size copy in oils of Giotto's lost mosaic Navicella, made in 1628