Giorgio Morandi was born in Bologna‚ Italy on July 20th‚ 1890; to Andrea and Maria Maccaferri. Out of five children‚ he was the eldest. In 1906‚ he enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti and his natural artistic gifts were quickly discovered by the Morandi family. On the 14th of October 1907‚ the seventeen-year-old Giorgio enrolled in a preparatory course at the Accademia and he finished it with flying colours.Due to his special talents‚ he was admitted to the second year of the foundation course
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by Filippino Lippi‚ Botticelli‚ and Raffaellino del Garbo. the framework was made by Giorgio Vasari after 1524. Botticelli‚ the most eminent one of the three‚ is best known for The Birth of Venus. He was very skilled at portraiture. His apprentice‚ Filippino Lippi worked with Botticelli on this piece of art. The Libro de’ Disegni‚ Italian for Book of Drawings‚ is a compilation of drawings collected by Giorgio Vasari. There were approximately 526 drawings‚ of which 162 are in the Louvre‚ 83 in the Stockholm
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3‚ 2014 Professor McClure INSERT INTERESTING TITLE HERE Widely known as the first great art historian‚ in his Lives of the Artists‚ Giorgio Vasari goes into great detail on the lives of many famous Renaissance artists‚ including Lorenzo Ghiberti‚ Donatello‚ and Leonardo da Vinci. In his biographies of these artists‚ one of the most interesting ideas that Vasari explores is the relationship between the artists and their patrons. Because artists needed to earn a living‚ they relied on commissions
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of nature‚ or the attempt to generalize from realistic portrayal to an ideal form. "(Spielvogel‚ 2009) Leonardo exhibited a period of the Renaissance where artist tried to make a realistic portrayal to an ideal portrayal. A description given by Giorgio Vasari in his biography of Leonardo Da Vinci named The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci shows a firsthand source of how others thought of him “In the normal course of events many men and women are born with various remarkable qualities and talents; but occasionally
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touchstones of Leonardo’s art‚ so intertwined. The artist Giorgio Vasari‚ a near-contemporary‚ told of how Leonardo kept Lisa del Giocondo‚ the young wife of a Florentine silk merchant‚ smiling during her portrait sessions. “While painting her portrait‚ he employed people to play and sing for her‚ and jesters to keep her merry‚ to put an end to the melancholy that painters often succeed in giving to their portraits.” The result‚ Vasari said‚ was “a smile so pleasing that it was more divine than
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Mona Lisa stems from a description by Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari‚ who wrote "Leonardo undertook to paint‚ for Francesco del Giocondo‚ the portrait of Mona Lisa‚ his wife."[5][6] Mona in Italian is a polite form of address originating as ma donna —similar to Ma’am‚ Madam‚ or my lady in English. This became madonna‚ and its contraction mona. The title of the painting‚ though traditionally spelled "Mona" (as used by Vasari[5])‚ is also commonly spelled in modern Italian as Monna Lisa‚ but
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were no great women artists in the Renaissance” When we think of great renaissance artists the first names that would come to most peoples mind would be Leonardo Di Vinci or Michelago. When it is looked at into more depth it would then lead to Giorgio Vasari and the father of Italian renaissance Giotto Di Bondone. Even when you type into Google ‘Great renaissance artists‘ the first names that come up are Michelangelo‚ Raphael‚ Sandro Botticelli‚ Titian‚ Donatello‚ Masaccio‚ Filippo Brunelleschi and
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period is Artistic Expression. Giorgio Vasari‚ a famous painter‚ writer‚ historian‚ and architect‚ says in his “Lives of Painters” discusses how Leonardo de Vinci had a rare gift of talent and ability to whatever subject he turned his attention. (Doc. 3) Here‚ Vasari is expressing that he believes Leonardo is the perfect “Renaissance Man”. Vasari is writing to show that many painters are very good at what they do but it is also good to be well rounded. Since Vasari is writing this and he is a painter
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paintbrush as he gives life to a blank canvas is mesmerizing. Throughout history‚ this Renaissance man has intrigued many‚ and his legacy has been immortalized by his works and by his many biographers. The earliest Leonardo Da Vinci biographer was Giorgio Vasari‚ a fifteenth-century Italian artist‚ famous for his biographies of Renaissance artists. Vasari’s approach to Leonardo has a poetic quality‚ embellished with poignant stories of his divine talent. Contrastingly‚ cotemporary art historian Martin
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rebirth. Two rival schools of painting‚ Siena and Florence‚ rose to the forefront of this transformation during the beginnings of the Renaissance. In his Lives of the Artists‚ Vasari denotes the main proponents of the movements in Siena and Florence to be Duccio di Buoninsegna and Giotto di Bondone‚ respectively. Vasari saw Duccio‚ called the "Father of the Sienese Renaissance" by many art historians‚ as an extremely talented artist who deserves much respect and consideration. He credits Duccio
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