Giorgio Vasari Painter, architect and writer on art Arezzo 1511- Florence1574 He studied the basic methods of the early Mannerist school of painting in Rome and Florence, where he took his cue from Raphael and Michelangelo as well as from Venetian influences. Thanks to his eclectic and scholarly education, he was soon mixing in a favourable environment in Rome (1542-46) which brought him into ...

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Back to Medieval Source Book Medieval Sourcebook: Giorgio Vasari: Life of Leonardo da Vinci 1550 Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) wrote about hundreds of artists in his Lives of the Most Eminent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors, which he published first in 1550, and in a revised edition in 1568. LIFE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: Painter and Sculptor of Florence The greatest gifts are often seen, ...

Research in ceramics and the Connoisseurship of collecting: Charles Lang Freer, Pewabic Pottery, and historic architecture.

Art Historian Gabriel P. Weisberg's work focuses on themes affecting French art from the middle of the nineteenth century until World War I.

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by birthday from the calendar. Credits and feedback Sir Ernst Gombrich (1909-2001) Austrian/British writer of art, the author of The Story of Art (1950), which has been translated into some 20 languages. Originally the work was intended for teen-agers, but due to its insights and superb style, it ...

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Professor Homer's interests are in both European and American painting from 1865 to 1925 and in American art after World War II. He is also fascinated with the history of photography, especially the pictorial movement, 1885 to 1920. Contemporary painting, photography, and popular culture also interest him, as does the phenomenon of Postmodernism. He has taken a wide variety of approaches to the ...

Meyer Schapiro: The Presence of the Subject Marshall Berman Marshall Berman, author of All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity (Penguin), teaches at CUNY and writes on culture and politics. He is a member of the editorial board of Dissent. I FELL IN LOVE WITH MEYER SCHAPIRO the first time I saw him. As I write this, more than 30 years later, I am just about the age now -- ...