The time it would take to move Giorgio Vasari’s*The Last Supper* (Arezzo, 1511 – Florence, 1574) to safety if the Arno River were to flood the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence again, as it did on November 4, 1966, is just…
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News Focus Ancient art Five hundred Giorgio Vasari Mannerism
A painting by Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511 – Florence, 1574), which had remained unknown to scholars for decades, is once again drawing attention in the art market and art history circles. It is a *Transport of Christ to the Tomb*…
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Exhibition reviews Ancient art Five hundred Giorgio Vasari Mannerism Renaissance Rome
A chamber exhibition. It comes to be called that, borrowing the lexicon of chamber music: that designed for small ensembles and intimate spaces, more living rooms than concert halls. This is the hallmark of the exhibition Vasari and Rome…
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Rome hosts a new exhibition dedicated to Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511 - Florence, 1574), concluding the celebrations for the 450th anniversary of his death. Vasari and Rome, set up in the Capitoline Museums at Palazzo Caffarelli from March…
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Restoration of Giorgio Vasari's Lamentation over Christ Deposed from the Cross, one of the most significant works preserved at the MAR - Ravenna City Art Museum, is now underway. The painting, an oil on panel made in 1548 for the Classe…
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Works and artists Ancient art Five hundred Giorgio Vasari
Painter, historiographer, architect. Outstanding collector of anecdotes. Polemicist at times. Court artist. And also inventor of iconographies. It is the latter, perhaps, that is the least known aspect of Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511…
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Arezzo is preparing to pay further homage to its most illustrious citizen, Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511 - Florence, 1574), on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of his death in 1574. The Tuscan city, known for its historical and…
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In Florence, on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the death of Cosimo I de' Medici and Giorgio Vasari, Palazzo Vecchio celebrates their extraordinary artistic partnership with an exhibition dedicated to the decoration of the Sala…
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