" Alberti's life was described in Giorgio Vasari's Vite de ' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori or ' Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects '.

The framing of the woodcut image of Mannerist artist Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists ( illustration, left ) would be called " Jacobean " in an English-speaking context.

* Giorgio Vasari's life of Paolo Uccello translated by George Bull in Lives of the Artists, Part 1.

Giorgio Vasari's impression of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

*“ Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists .” Site created by Adrienne DeAngelis.

The little known of Giorgione's life is given in Giorgio Vasari's Vite.

* Illustrated biography ( based on Giorgio Vasari's Lives )

Giorgio Vasari's vita of Mino da Fiesole in his Lives of the Artists dismisses him as a mere follower of Desiderio da Settignano, his master.

Giorgio Vasari's mid-sixteenth century biography of the artist greatly exaggerated Bernardo's actual role in most of the projects.

However, according to Giorgio Vasari's " Lives of the Artists " ( Second and Corrected Edition ) Ginevra was not the daughter of Amerigo de ' Benci but his wife.

During his travels and stay in Italy, van Mander had read and was influenced by Giorgio Vasari's famous biographical accounts of painters in his book Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, often referred to as the " Vite ".

Filippo Di Ser Brunelesco: Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists

He is cited in Giorgio Vasari's Vite or biographies of the artists.

One of the first records of celebrity status is artist-architect Giorgio Vasari's monograph Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori ( in English, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects ), first published in 1550, recording the Renaissance ( rinascita ) at the time of its flourishment.

* Photos of the Library and vestibule, with Giorgio Vasari's remarks

The first citation that Madonna of the stairs was a Michelangelo sculpture was in Giorgio Vasari's Lives in the 1568 edition.

Giorgio Vasari, who argued that historical progress in art reached its peak in Michelangelo, emphasized Alberti's scholarly achievements, not his artistic talents: " He spent his time finding out about the world and studying the proportions of antiquities ; but above all, following his natural genius, he concentrated on writing rather than on applied work.

Agnolo Bronzino and Giorgio Vasari exemplify this strain of Maniera that lasted from about 1530 to 1580.

Art historian Giorgio Vasari wrote about Anguissola that she " has shown greater application and better grace than any other woman of our age in her endeavors at drawing ; she has thus succeeded not only in drawing, coloring and painting from nature, and copying excellently from others, but by herself has created rare and very beautiful paintings.

The great early art historian Giorgio Vasari wrote this about Anguissola: " Anguissola has shown greater application and better grace than any other woman of our age in her endeavors at drawing ; she has thus succeeded not only in drawing, coloring and painting from nature, and copying excellently from others, but by herself has created rare and very beautiful paintings.

His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years ( from 1504 – 1508 ) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates.

While waiting for a friend in the Convent of San Giorgio he was studying Scripture when he suddenly conceived " about seven reasons " why the Church was about to be scourged and renewed.

According to Giorgio Vasari, shortly after the installation of his Pietà Michelangelo overheard ( or asked visitors about the sculptor ) someone remark that it was the work of another sculptor, Cristoforo Solari, whereupon Michelangelo signed the sculpture.

Little is known about the early life of Brunelleschi, the only sources being Antonio Manetti and Giorgio Vasari.

At the agency on Monday, Burgoyne questions Maria about Anita's weekend with Giorgio, and although she maintains that Anita did nothing wrong, Burgoyne assumes she is having an affair with Giorgio.

Giorgio Agamben ( 2002 ) describes paradigms as things what we think with, rather than things we think about.

Giorgio Vasari includes a biography of Buonamico in his Lives, in which he tells several anecdotes about his comic escapades.

The poem has been written entirely in dialect of San Giorgio and has about 4717 lines.

Giorgio and Clara exchange letters about Fosca.

The soldiers gossip about Giorgio and Fosca while playing pool (" Soldiers ' Gossip ").

He worked in Verona and Padua — works by him survive in the church of Sant ' Anastasia in Verona and in the basilica of Sant ' Antonio and the Oratorio di San Giorgio in Padua ( where the credit for the work has been generally shared with Jacopo d ' Avanzi, about whom little is known ).

Gubbio is home to the Corsa dei Ceri, a run held every year always on the 15th day of May, in which three teams, devoted to St. Ubaldo ( the patron saint of Gubbio ), S. Giorgio, and S. Antonio, run through throngs of cheering supporters ( clad in the distinctive colours of yellow, blue and black, with white trousers and red belts and neckbands ), up much of the mountain from the main square in front of the Palazzo dei Consoli to the basilica of St. Ubaldo, each team carrying a statue of their saint mounted on a wooden octagonal prism, similar to an hour-glass shape 4 metres tall and weighing about 280 kilograms.

And in 1987, in The Gold-rimmed Glasses based on Giorgio Bassani's novel about the cramped social life of post-war Ferrara in Italy, he played an elderly and respectable doctor who is gradually suspected of being a covert homosexual with a passion for a beautiful young man ( Rupert Everett ).

Giorgio Agamben engages in a similar argument about the concept of community in his 1990 book The Coming Community ( translated in English by Michael Hardt in 1993 ).

Italian autonomist Giorgio Agamben has also written about this idea.

In 1496 he executed the Prodigal Son, which the Italian Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari singled out for praise some decades later, noting its Germanic quality.

Two biographies were published of him during his lifetime ; one of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a viewpoint that continued to have currency in art history for centuries.

While the focus was on writing, the journal also included reproductions of art, among them works by Giorgio de Chirico, Ernst, Masson, and Man Ray.

Giorgio de Chirico, and his previous development of metaphysical art, was one of the important joining figures between the philosophical and visual aspects of Surrealism.

Like his Giorgio Vasari a generation before, Zuccari aimed at being an art critic and historian.

It has shown unusual exhibitions on occasion, for example commercial art installations of Giorgio Armani suits and motorcycles.

From this grew his Notizie, in which he consciously intended to build upon the Vite of Giorgio Vasari ; Baldinucci's was the first art history to trace the lives and work of artists not only of one region ( Vasari was prejudiced towards Tuscan artists ) but all Italy, and indeed beyond.

Indeed, Italian Giorgio de Chirico, producing works in the late 1910s under the style arte metafisica ( translated as Metaphysical art ), is seen as a precursor and as having an " influence ... greater than any other painter on the artists of New Objectivity.

In this cycle, there are no fewer than twenty-one portraits of the Tornabuoni and Tornaquinci families – in the Angel appearing to Zacharias, portraits of Politian, Marsilio Ficino and others ; in the Salutation of Anna and Elizabeth, the beautiful Giovanna Tornabuoni ( identified ( incorrectly ) by Giorgio Vasari as Ginevra de Benci ); in the Expulsion of Joachim from the Temple, Sebastiano Mainardi and Alessio Baldovinetti ( some art historians have surmised that the latter figure may be the likeness of Ghirlandaio's father ).

According to late Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari, Simone was instead a pupil of Giotto di Bondone, with whom he went to Rome to paint at the Old St. Peter's Basilica, Giotto also executing a mosaic there.

Lazzaro Vasari, the great-grandfather of art historian Giorgio Vasari, was brother to Luca's mother ; according to Giorgio Vasari he got Luca apprenticed to Piero della Francesca.

Giotto, whose greatest work is the cycle of the Life of Christ at the Arena Chapel in Padua, was seen by the 16th century biographer Giorgio Vasari as " rescuing and restoring art " from the " crude, traditional, Byzantine style " prevalent in Italy in the 13th century.

The High Renaissance was traditionally viewed as a great explosion of creative genius, following a model of art history first proposed by the Florentine Giorgio Vasari.

The first academy of art was founded in Florence in Italy by Cosimo I de ' Medici, on 13 January 1563, under the influence of the architect Giorgio Vasari who called it the Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno ( Academy and Company for the Arts of Drawing ) as it was divided in two different operative branches.

Its principal monuments include the medieval Palazzo Comunale and a tall thin tower, the Torre Comunale ; and the Pinacoteca Comunale, an art museum with mostly Renaissance works, notable for its external decoration by Giorgio Vasari.

According to the art historian Giorgio Vasari, Botticelli was a partisan of Savonarola: " he was so ardent a partisan that he was thereby induced to desert his painting, and, having no income to live on, fell into very great distress.

Giorgio Davanzo created the packaging and brand identity for the game, and Gary Baseman, creator of the animated series Teacher's Pet, did the art.

Working with other leading Melbourne film identities including David Bilcock, Dusan Marek, Giorgio Mangiamele, Gerard Vanceburg, Allan Harness and composer George Dreyfus, Eltham Films made many short subjects, including acclaimed documentaries on modern Australian art and the early children's TV puppet show Sebastian The Fox, which first screened on the ABC in 1962-63.

However, with the coming of the Renaissance and the Baroque style, and revived interest in art and architecture of antiquity, barrel vaulting was re-introduced on a truly grandiose scale, and employed in the construction of many famous buildings and churches, such as Basilica di Sant ' Andrea di Mantova by Leone Battista Alberti, San Giorgio Maggiore by Andrea Palladio, and perhaps most glorious of all, St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, where a huge barrel vault spans the 27 meter wide nave.

Giorgio Davanzo created the packaging and brand identity for the game, and Gary Baseman, creator of the animated series Teacher's Pet, did the art.

Many styles of modern art, including Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Abstract art, Surrealism are represented with works by Matisse, André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Dufy, Albert Marquet, Le Douanier Rousseau, Paul Signac, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Alexej von Jawlensky, Emil Nolde, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Carlo Carrà, Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini, Marc Chagall, Natalia Gontcharova, Mikhail Larionov, Alexander Rodchenko, Kupka, Mondrian, Theo Van Doesburg, Paul Klee, Vassili Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Jacques Villon, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Georges Rouault, Balthus, Max Beckmann, Brancusi and Calder, Soutine, Marc Chagall, Modigliani, Kees Van Dongen, Jean Arp, Giorgio de Chirico, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Magritte, Max Ernst, Miro, Man Ray, Alberto Giacometti, René Iché, Nicolas de Staël, André Masson, Tanguy, Jean Tinguely, Yves Klein, Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and Francis Bacon.