How To Use Vasari In A Sentence
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He may have painted Madonnas beautifully but his first biographer Vasari suggested his death was not due to fever but to amatory excess.
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Vasari's portrait of the aged Piero as eremitic and antisocial has influenced the way scholars have read the few available documents.
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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.
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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.
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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
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[H] He is said by Vasari to have called Francia the like.
Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
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Vasari's herms, markers of the boundaries of the territories of Venice, had a clear association with the Venetian empire.
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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
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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.
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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
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Vasari's biography confirms that Leonardo began to draw the cartoon in the Sala del Papa of the monumental Dominican building complex of Santa Maria Novella.
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He was said to have been a pupil of van Eyck, e.g. by Vasari and other writers, but the researches of Weale in Flemish documents proved this incorrect, and showed that Campin was Rogier's master.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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Vasari specifically attributed to Domenico di Polo one of these medals, with the impresa of Capricorn on its reverse, dating it to Cosimo's first year of office, 1537.
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Back in Florence by 1564, he was soon involved in Vasari's projects, though painting in a more restrained and monumental style than Vasari's extreme Mannerism.
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Vasari's art historical approach does not comply with more recent documentary methods.
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Vasari's art historical approach does not comply with more recent documentary methods.
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Also included are such possible sources as Byzantine ivories, reliefs on Roman clay lamps and, most intriguingly of all, an example of the Roman Arretine ware that Vasari claimed as a source for rilievo schiacciato.
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Vasari states that in his old age Piero expressed his distaste for the sordid trappings of death, such as parasitic nurses, the visitations of weeping relatives, and confinement in dark sickrooms.
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Combing the archives for empirical verification, a disparate band of historians, archivists, and antiquarians refuted Vasari's narrative point by point.
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For Vasari, his was the first, albeit embryonic, attempt to shake off the supposed crudity of medieval style and begin the long march to a fully achieved Renaissance.
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For Vasari, the stylistic and formal development of art is of primary importance.
