How To Use Vasari In A Sentence
- He may have painted Madonnas beautifully but his first biographer Vasari suggested his death was not due to fever but to amatory excess.
- Vasari's portrait of the aged Piero as eremitic and antisocial has influenced the way scholars have read the few available documents.
- A patent signed by Marino and dated August 24, 1536, which entitled Clovio to the benefice of the nearby church of S. Bartolomeo a Castel Rigone, supports Vasari's account.
- Durer may have shown him what subject matter would be appreciated abroad, for the first of these engravings mentioned by Vasari is the Massacre of the Innocents, another study of nudes.
- Vasari speaks with characteristic enthusiasm of the glyptics of the Greeks, "whose works in that manner may be called divine. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
- [H] He is said by Vasari to have called Francia the like. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
- Vasari's herms, markers of the boundaries of the territories of Venice, had a clear association with the Venetian empire.
- Vasari; he leads us from its cradle to its maturity with the anxious diligence of a nurse; but he likewise has her derelictions: for more loquacious than ample, and less discriminating styles than eager to accumulate descriptions, he is at an early period exhausted by the superlatives lavished on inferior claims, and forced into frigid rhapsodies and astrologic nonsense to do justice to the greater. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
- Even so, a substantial part of the painting was executed, and was carefully preserved after Leonardo's departure from Florence in 1506 until the 1560s, when Vasari overpainted it.
- GIORGIO VASARI, better known as the chronicler of the works of other artists than for the excellence of his own, was born at Arezzo, 1512 -- died at Florence, 1574. Fra Bartolommeo
