Vasari

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

December 14, 2014
Mary sits on an elaborately decorated throne, her lap creating a throne for her son Jesus.

October 14, 2014
Florentine artist Alesso Baldovinetti may have been born on 14 October 1425.

May 1, 2014
On this day in 1456, painter and Carmelite friar Fra Filippo Lippi abducted an Augustinian nun named Lucrezia Buti.

August 29, 2013
Ermanno Rivetti reports in the Art Newspaper that part of the V asari Corridor roof has collapsed.

August 19, 2013
Painter Andrea del Castagno was buried on this day in 1457 in Florence.

July 30, 2013
Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects , 1568.

July 30, 2013
Happy Birthday Giorgio Vasari !