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Giorgio Vasari
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Lives of the Artists by Calvin Tomkins, Henry Holt and Company, 269 pages Calvin Tomkins' Lives of the Artists seems pretentious, given that it's modeled and titled after Giorgio Vasari's seminal Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects from the 16th century. But then Tomkins -- staff writer for The New Yorker since 1960 -- acknowledges that biographer in his preface: "Formalist art critics used to say that the life of an artist was irrelevant to an understanding of his or her work. This may be so for certain critics, but ever since 1550, when Giorgio Vasari published the first edition of his Lives (the title I shamelessly swipe here), biography has informed our understanding of art.
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We've been fascinated by the mystery of artistic creativity since long before Giorgio Vasari published his illuminating - and gossipy - "Lives of the Artists" in 1550. But a twentieth-century medium has proved particularly popular in delving into the complicated world of artistic genius, from Irving Stone's 1965 film "The Agony and the Ecstasy" to Milos Forman's 1984 "Amadeus.
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Various scholars still wonder why Michelangelo suddenly decided to destroy the sculpture Florentine 'Pieta' after laboring to finish it for eight years. Giorgio Vasari believes that the sculpture was supposed to be a personal work expressing the artist's intense religious convictions. Leo Steinberg proposed in 1968 that Michelangelo recoiled from the strong erotic connotations of the position of Christ's left leg between the Madonna's knees in the original design of the 'Pieta,' and thus decided to destroy the sculpture. Fortunately, his servant Antonio stopped Michelangelo from completely mutilating the 'Pieta.'
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ROME - Italian researchers said Tuesday they will dig up bones in a Florence convent to try to identify the remains of a Renaissance woman long believed to be the model for the "Mona Lisa. If successful, the research might help ascertain the identity of the woman depicted in Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece - a mystery that has puzzled scholars and art lovers for centuries and generated countless theories.
... Gioconda" and in French as "La Joconde." Giorgio Vasari, a 16th-century artist and biographer of Le...
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By their very nature, drawings feel fleeting. They often represent an artist's early vision of a painting or sculpture, or a first impression of a subject that might later become a portrait. Drawings are more ephemeral than paintings. They're subject to degradation over time, and are among the most fragile works an artist might produce. Because of their delicate nature, museums often do not exhibit them. When they do, those drawings are on view for brief periods of time to limit their exposure to light.
... hand, she said, quoting Italian painter Giorgio Vasari, who described drawing as "a visible expres...
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READER'S PRESCRIPTION FOR DESIGN REVIEW BOARD Please advise me as to where I can donate a pair of eyeglasses to three members of the Historic Design Review Board or refer them to reread the venerable Giorgio Vasari on the aesthetic elements of art, architecture and culture.
