giorgio vasari

November 26, 2016
Giovanni Bellini Died in Venice on 26 November 1516.

November 14, 2016
Rediscovered hand-drawn portraits in Vasari’s Lives As a result of a study conducted leafing through 85 copies of Giorgio Vasari’s Lives in Italy, USA, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Belgium, and Spain, the website ‘Letteratura artistica.

November 4, 2016
Vasari’s ‘Last Supper’ Unveiled at Last in Florence Following years of restoration, Giorgio Vasari’s Last Supper (1546) was unveiled to the public today, 4 November, in the old cenacolo of Santa Croce in Florence.

Vasari’s ‘Last Supper’ Unveiled at Last in Florence Following years of restoration, Giorgio Vasari’s Last Supper (1546) was unveiled to the public today, 4 November, in the old cenacolo of Santa Croce in Florence.

May 27, 2016
Benedetto da Maiano died on 24 May 1497 in Florence, where he was born in 1442.

May 14, 2016
Following the restoration of a series of letters addressed to Vasari from Michelangelo and the digitalization of the whole Vasari archive, the exhibition Michelangelo and Vasari opened two days ago in Florence, at the Palazzo Medici Riccardi.

January 15, 2016
Antiquarian, theorist and biographer Giovanni Pietro Bellori was born on 15 January 1613 in Rome.

December 10, 2015
Today is the anniversary of the death of Paolo Uccello (née Paolo di Dono), the early Renaissance Florentine painter, who died on December 10, 1475.

October 18, 2015
Palazzo Pitti, Italy

April 1, 2015
Italian author, artist, and collector Carlo Ridolfi was born on 1 April 1594 in Lonigo, a city in the Veneto not far from Vicenza.

January 22, 2015
The Italian banker and art patron Bindo Altoviti died on 22 January 1557 in his native Rome.