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GIORGIO See also: Italian painter and architect, whose See also: main distinction, however, rests on his valuable See also: history of Italian See also: art, was See also: born at See also: Arezzo on the 3oth of See also: July 1511
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At a very early age he became a pupil of Guglielmo da Marsiglia, a very skilful painter of stained See also: glass, to whom he was recommended by his own kinsman, the painter Luca See also: Signorelli
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At the age of sixteen he went to Florence, where he studied under Michelangelo and See also: Andrea del Sarto, aided by the patronage of the See also: Medici princes
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In 1529 he visited See also: Rome and studied the See also: works of See also: Raphael and others of his school
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The paintings of See also: 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
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Vasari was largely employed in Florence, Rome, Naples, Arezzo and other places
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Many of his pictures still exist, the most important being the See also: wall and ceiling paintings in the See also: great See also: hall of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, and his frescoes on the cupola of the
See also: cathedral, which, however, were not completed at the See also: time of his See also: death
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As an architect he was perhaps more successful: the loggia of the Uffizi by the See also: Arno, and the long passage connecting it with the Pitti Palace, are his chief works
.
Unhappily he did much to injure the See also: fine See also: medieval churches of S
.
Maria Novella and See also: Santa Croce, from both of which he removed the See also: original rood-screen and loft, and remodelled the retro-choir in the degraded taste of his time
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Vasari enjoyed a very high repute
during his lifetime and amassed a considerable See also: fortune
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He built himself in 1547 a fine See also: house in Arezzo, and spent much labour in decorating its walls and vaults with paintings
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He was elected one of the municipal council or priori of his nativeSee also: town, and finally See also: rose to the supreme office of gonfaloniere
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He died at Florence on the 27th of See also: June 1571
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Personally Vasari was a See also: man of upright character, See also: free from vanity, and always ready to appreciate the works of others: in spite of the narrow and meretricious taste of his time, he expresses a warm admiration of the works of such men as Cimabue and See also: Giotto, which is very remarkable
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As an art historian of his country he must always occupy the highest See also: rank
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His great See also: work was first published in 1550, and after-wards partly rewritten and enlarged in 1568, bearing the title belie Vile de' pin eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori
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It was dedicated to Cosimo de' Medici, and was printed at Florence by the Giunti; it is a small See also: quarto illustrated with many See also: good woodcut portraits
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This editio princeps of the See also: complete work is usually bound in three volumes, and also contains a very valuable See also: treatise on the technical methods employed in all branches of the arts, entitled Le Tre Arti del discgaao, cioe architeltura, pittura, e scoltura
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His See also: biographies are written in a very pleasant See also: style, interspersed with amusing stories
.
With a few exceptions Vasari's See also: judgment is acute and unbiased
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And though See also: modern criticism—with all the new materials opened up by research—has done valuable work in upsetting a good many of his traditional accounts and attributions, the result is a tendency very often to under-estimate Vasari's accuracy and to multiply hypotheses of a rather speculative character
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The work .in any See also: case remains
a classic, however it may be supplemented by the more critical research of modern days
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Vasari gives a sketch of his own biography at the end of his 'Vite, and adds further details about himself and his See also: family in his lives of Lazzaro Vasari and See also: Francesco Salviati
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The best edition of Vasari's works is that published at Florence by See also: Milanesi (1878-1882), which embodies the valuable notes in the earlier edition by Le See also: Monnier (1846) ; another, by Venturi, was begun in 1896
.
' The Lives has been translated into French, See also: German and See also: English (by Mrs See also: Foster, See also: London, 185o)
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