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Uffizi on Madison

by Mario Naves
Feb. 5th, 2008, 12:32 pm
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Giorgio Vasari’s <i>Male Figure Seated on &lt;br /&gt;a Stool</i> (1555-65).
Courtesy of The Morgan Library and Museum
Giorgio Vasari’s Male Figure Seated on
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 »

Von Bülow Fund Yields Beautiful Nobodies

by Mario Naves
Sep. 4th, 2007, 2:27 pm
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Louis-Nicolas de Lespinasse’s <i>The Reception of an Ambassador by the Grand Vizier at His Yali on the Shores of the Bosphorus</i> (1790).
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Louis-Nicolas de Lespinasse’s The Reception of an Ambassador by the Grand Vizier at His Yali on the Shores of the Bosphorus (1790).

The Morgan Library calls up the B-team of 18th-century art—to surprising effect.  read more »