There can be few more flagrant instances of the law of unintended consequences than the way in which Vasari’s Lives of the Artists have all but fatally overshadowed his own artistic career. For while ...
The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art. By Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney. Norton; 432 pages; $29.95 and £23.99. TOWARDS the end of his life Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most ...
THE DAILY PIC (#1601): It’s not often I come across Renaissance art on a trek through Chelsea galleries. On a recent reconnoiter, however, I discovered this 16 th-century painting, attributed to a ...
More than 200 years after a ceiling painted by the Tuscan artist Vasari was dismembered and sold on the antiquarian market, it is (almost) whole again. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reported from Venice Over ...
In November 1966, torrential rains sent the Arno River pouring over its banks and flooding the streets of Florence. The surging waters damaged or destroyed thousands of paintings, frescoes and ...
A secretive Renaissance-era passageway in Florence connecting the Uffizi Galleries to the Palazzo Pitti, the Medicis’ former residence, has opened to the public for the first time in its nearly ...
FLORENCE -- Few artists marked the dawn of a painting's creation as precisely and dramatically as Leonardo da Vinci did with his "Battle of Anghiari," a vast fresco of war and rage that he undertook ...
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