vasari wrote lives of the artists in 1550.
vasari wrote lives of the artists in 1550.
when did vasari write lives of the artists?
1550
there are a few mentions of paintings and their location in sources from the decades after his death. vasari's "life" is relatively short and, especially in the first edition of 1550, rather disapproving. according to the ettlingers "he is clearly ill at ease with sandro and did not know how to fit him into his evolutionary scheme of the history of art running from cimabue to michelangelo". nonetheless, this is the main source of information about his life, even though vasari twice mixes him up with francesco botticini, another florentine painter of the day. vasari saw botticelli as a firm partisan of the anti-medici faction influenced by savonarola, while vasari himself relied heavily on the patronage of the returned medicis of his own day. vasari also saw him as an artist who had abandoned his talent in his last years, which offended his high idea of the artistic vocation. he devotes a good part of his text to rather alarming anecdotes of practical jokes by botticelli. vasari was born the year after botticelli's death, but would have known many florentines with memories of him.
sandro botticelli
bullet::::- "reading vasari", eds. anne b. barriault, andrew t. ladis, norman e. land, and jeryldene m. wood (london: philip wilson, 2005)









































bullet::::- "the ashgate research companion to giorgio vasari", ed. david j. cast (surrey: ashgate, 2014)









































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bullet::::- biography of vasari and analysis for four major works









































bullet::::- giorgio vasari – the first art-historian









































copies of vasari's "lives of the artists" online:









































bullet::::- “giorgio vasari's "lives of the artists".” site created by adrienne deangelis. now largely completed in the posting of the "lives", intended to be re-translated to become the unabridged english version.
giorgio vasari