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 coined the term " Gothic " in an effort to describe, particularly architecture, that he found objectionable, supposedly saying " it is as if the Goths built it ".

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.

Maria senses that Anita and Giorgio are attracted to each other, though Anita states that the agency forbids its American and Italian employees to fraternize.

Rule by decree is a style of governance allowing quick, unchallenged creation of law by a single person or group, and is used primarily by dictators and absolute monarchs, although philosophers such as Giorgio Agamben have argued that it has been generalized since World War I in all modern states, including representative democracies.

Giorgio Vasari, an artist and biographer of the Italian Renaissance, states that Pisanello also worked in the workshop of Andrea del Castagno, author of the painted equestrian monument of Niccolò da Tolentino ( 1456 ) in the Cathedral in Florence.

Nuvolari was married to Carolina Perina, and together they had two children: Giorgio ( born 4 September 1918 ), who died in 1937 aged 19 from myocarditis, and Alberto, who died in 1946 aged 18 from nephritis.

As they walk, Maria is pinched by a man who pesters her until she is rescued by Giorgio, who then asks Anita to go with him the next day to his family's country farm to attend a celebration.

After Giorgio rescues her, the breathless couple gives into their attraction and they kiss.

Dino and Giorgio then arrive, and as the men embrace their girlfriends, Frances is joined by Shadwell, and they happily admire the fountain, which has proved lucky to them all.

The famous name of the bridge dates from the Romantic period and was supposed to refer to the sighs of prisoners who, passing from the courtroom to the cell in which they would serve their sentence, took a last look at freedom as they glimpsed the lagoon and San Giorgio through the small windows.

The short sections of crenellated wall with ball finials which extend out either side of the villa were symbolic of medieval ( or Roman ) fortified town walls and were inspired by their use by Palladio at his church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice and by Inigo Jones ( 1573 – 1652 ) ( Palladio also produced woodcuts of the Villa Foscari with crenellated sections of walls in his I quattro libri dell ' architettura in 1570, yet in reality they were never built ).

In 1988, Faithfull married writer and actor Giorgio Della Terza, but they divorced in 1991.

In October 2005, Alexia married Andrea Camerana, Giorgio Armani's nephew, and in February 2007 they had their first child, a girl named Maria Vittoria.

As they stroll through a neglected garden, Giorgio politely engages Fosca in conversation while mentally narrating a letter to Clara.

Giorgio finds he no longer desires the carefully arranged, convenient relationship that they shared (" Just Another Love Story ").

" I think they may have identified with Giorgio and Fosca all too readily and uncomfortably.

Perhaps they were reacting to the realization that we are all Fosca, we are all Giorgio, we are all Clara.

:" At this time Giorgio Vasari a great friend of Giulio, though they only knew each other by report and by letters, passed through Mantua on his way to Venice to see him and his works.

It is evidence of the facility with which he acquired the rapid execution of a scene-painter that he was selected to co-operate with Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Battista Franco and Francesco de ' Rossi ( Il Salviati ) to re-decorate the Porta San Sebastiano at Rome as a triumphal arch ( 5 April 1536 ) in honour of Charles V. Giorgio Vasari, who saw the battle-pieces which Heemskerk then produced, said they were well composed and boldly executed.

Sparks have been highly influential on the development of popular music, in particular on the late 1970s scene, when in collaboration with Giorgio Moroder ( and Telex subsequently ), they reinvented themselves as an electronic pop duo, and abandoned the traditional rock band line up.

This led to the most dramatic change of style the band would attempt, when they teamed up with Giorgio Moroder, dropped the band format altogether and produced No. 1 In Heaven.

Giorgio de Santillana ( 1902 – 1974 ) became professor of the History of Science in the School of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954 and along with Hertha von Dechend they published a book entitled " Hamlet's Mill, An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time " in 1969.

Because neither Tenco nor Gaber were yet members of the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers they could not trademark the song " Ciao ti dirò " (" I'll Say Hi to You ", inspired by Elvis Presley's " Jailhouse Rock "), which was signed off by Giorgio Calabrese and Giampiero Reverberi despite being composed by Tenco and Gaber.

Although the team were unable to make it past the first round of the playoffs, bowing out to the Toronto Blizzard, they had doubled the star studded New York Cosmos in regular season play, winning two-nil in New York, and in front of 28, 000 home fans had beaten Pele, Giorgio Chinaglia and company in a 4 – 1 romp.

With players like Giorgio Repetto and Bruno Nobili in the midfield, they managed to win their first promotion to Serie A in 1977 after winning the promotion play-off, but ultimately finished their first season in Serie A in last place.

In the book The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Tag Teams Condrey explains that the name did not stem from the movie Midnight Express ( although later versions of the Midnight Express would use the film ’ s theme by Giorgio Moroder as their theme music ) but from the fact that they all dressed in black, drove black cars, and were out partying past midnight.

The Gestapo commander in the city, with the help of the Italian police commissioner, captures Giorgio and the priest as they are escorting a German defector and Giorgio out of town, and interrogates Giorgio through torture.