Giorgio Vasari
Uffizi on Madison
Courtesy of The Morgan Library and Museum
Giorgio Vasari’s Male Figure Seated on
a Stool (1555-65).
a Stool (1555-65).
Any event prompting a reacquaintance with The Lives of the Artists, the seminal art historical tract by Giorgio Vasari, is, almost by definition, a good one. So it is with “Michelangelo, Vasari and Their Contemporaries; Drawings From the Uffizi,” an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum.
Vasari (1511-1574) was a vastly important figure in 16th-century Florence; the city and era are inconceivable without him. read more »
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Hilton Kramer
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