Giorgio Vasari, Perseus and Andromeda, 1570

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.

Writers such as Giorgio Vasari followed public opinion in judging the best painters above all on their production of large canvases of history painting, and artists continued for centuries to strive to make their reputation by producing such works, often neglecting genres to which their talents were better suited.

* 1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect ( d. 1574 )

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.

Giorgio Vasari, in the enlarged edition of Lives of the Artists, 1568, introduced his chapter on Leonardo da Vinci with the following words:

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

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.

Giorgio Vasari quotes Michelangelo as saying, " If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo.

The word " Gothic " was applied as a pejorative term to all things Northern European and, hence, barbarian, probably first by Giorgio Vasari.

Giorgio Vasari in his book Lives of the Artists wrote that Uccello was obsessed by his interest in perspective and would stay up all night in his study trying to grasp the exact vanishing point.

The sources for Paolo Uccello ’ s life are few: Giorgio Vasari ’ s biography, written 75 years after Paolo ’ s death, and a few contemporary official documents.

His daughter Antonia Uccello ( 1456 – 1491 ) was a Carmelite nun, whom Giorgio Vasari called " a daughter who knew how to draw ".

On the other hand, others bemoaned the austere Roman culture during his papacy ; Giorgio Vasari in 1567 spoke of a time when " the grandeurs of this place reduced by stinginess of living, dullness of dress, and simplicity in so many things ; Rome is fallen into much misery, and if it is true that Christ loved poverty and the City wishes to follow in his steps she will quickly become beggarly ...".

Three frescoes in the Sala Regia Palace of the Vatican depicting the events were painted by Giorgio Vasari, and a commemorative medal was issued with Gregory's portrait and on the obverse a chastising angel, sword in hand and the legend (" Massacre of the Huguenots ").

Julius extended his patronage to the great Renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whom he brought to Rome as his maestro di cappella, Giorgio Vasari, who supervised the design of the Villa Giulia, and to Michelangelo, who worked there.

The term was first used retrospectively by the Italian artist and critic Giorgio Vasari ( 1511 – 1574 ) in his book The Lives of the Artists ( published 1550 ).

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.

Even Giorgio Vasari, who did not think much of artists north of the Alps, praised it in his Le Vite and called it " a miracle in wood ", though misattributing it.

* June 27 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect ( b. 1511 )

* Giorgio Vasari visits Rome.

* July 30 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect ( d. 1574 )

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.

The term originated as a pejorative description: it came to be used as early as the 1530s by Giorgio Vasari to describe culture that was considered rude and barbaric.

The term was subsequently adopted and popularised in the mid 16th century by the Florentine artist and historian, Giorgio Vasari, who used it to denigrate northern European architecture generally.

The use of the term " exceptional " has to be underlined here: Schmitt defines sovereignty as the power to decide the instauration of state of exception, as Giorgio Agamben has noted.

The façade has a Gothic portal, ascribed to Giorgio da Como ( 1228 ), which was intended to have a lateral arch on each side.

It has maintained the Gothic portal by Giorgio da Sebenico, with statues portraying St. Monica, St. Nicola da Tolentino, St. Simplicianus and Blessed Agostino Trionfi.

There are also several fine late Gothic buildings, including the Palazzo Benincasa, the Palazzo del Senato and the Loggia dei Mercanti, all by Giorgio da Sebenico, and the prefecture, which has Renaissance additions.

The " Gothic " qualifier for this art was first used in Raphael's letter to Pope Leo X c. 1518 and was subsequently popularised by the Italian artist and writer Giorgio Vasari, who used it as early as 1530, calling Gothic art a " monstrous and barbarous " " disorder ".

The graveyard chapel of the Draganić-Vrančić family features a Gothic sarcophagus with a relief made in 1447 by Andrija Budčić from Šibenik and Lorenzo Pincino from Venice, according to the sketches by Giorgio da Sebenico ( George the Dalmatian ).

" Together In Electric Dreams ", a collaborative effort of Giorgio Moroder and Philip Oakey ( of The Human League ) features in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.

Fashion designer Giorgio Armani has given support to the effort to eliminate ultra-thin models.

* The main English source of information on Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii and Herberstein is Marshall Poe's publications, particularly Herberstein and Origin of the European Image of Muscovite Government, which cites many other contemporary publications such as Giorgio, Fabri and Campense.

Returning to the United States, Summer co-wrote the song " Love to Love You Baby " with Pete Bellotte ; music producer Giorgio Moroder convinced her to sing it herself, and it was released to mass commercial success in 1975, particularly on the disco scene.

These proposals have been popularized, particularly in the latter half of the 20th century, by writers such as Erich von Däniken, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, Zecharia Sitchin, Robert K. G. Temple, David Icke and Peter Kolosimo, but the idea that ancient astronauts actually existed is not taken seriously by most academics, and has received little or no credible attention in peer reviewed studies.

Giorgio Armani (; born 11 July 1934 ) is an Italian fashion designer, particularly noted for his menswear.

Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari does not even mention Fiorenzo's name, though he probably refers to him when he says that Cristofano, Perugino's father, sent his son to be the shop drudge of a painter in Perugia, who was not particularly distinguished in his calling, but held the art in great veneration and highly honoured the men who excelled therein.

Santley was also particularly proud to have sung once in that season with his friend and idol, Giorgio Ronconi, who was Leporello to Santley's Don Giovanni.

These images are projected onto and around the replica of the painting that now stands at the original site, within the Palladian architecture of the Benedictine refectory on San Giorgio Maggiore.

Three works from of that period are of European importance, and would contribute to the further development of Renaissance architecture: the Cathedral of St. James in Šibenik, in 1441 by Giorgio da Sebenico ; the Chapel of Blessed John from Trogir in 1468 by Niccolò Fiorentino ; and Sorkočević's villa in Lapad near Dubrovnik in 1521.

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.

He is said to have been instructed in painting by Salviati and Bronzino, in sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, in architecture by Giorgio Vasari, and to have learned miniature painting under Giulio Clovio.

After finishing architecture studies, he approached theatre art by realising the costumes for Casa di Bambola and L ' opera da 3 soldi, two plays directed by Giorgio Strehler at Piccolo Teatro in the 1955-56 theatre season.