Vasari and the Rebirth of the Visual Arts

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Vasari and the Rebirth of the Visual Arts
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Giorgio Vasari and assistants,The Sala dei
Cinquecento, the Palazzo Vecchio,Florence
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Giorgio Vasari and Bernardo Buontalenti, The
Uffizi Corridor, Florence
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Giorgio Vasari, Self-portrait as St Luke painting
the Virgin from the chapel in SS. Annunziata
where the Accademia del Disegno met.
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Titlepage of Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the
Most Excellent Italian Architects, Painters, and
Sculptors from Cimabue until Our Own Times
(Florence, 1550)
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Titlepage of Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the
Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and
Architects (Florence, 1568)
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Christ Pantocrator, Hagia Sophia, Constantinople,
12th Century
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Cimabue, Maestà,1285-1286
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Giotto, Death and Ascension of St. Francis
(detail), c. 1325
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Filippo Brunelleschi, Dome of Florence
Cathedral, 1419-1436
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Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Decoration of the
façade of the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino, late 1470s
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Lorenzo Ghiberti, Cain and Abel, the Baptistery,
Florence, 1425-1452
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Donatello, David, c. 1430?
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Masaccio, St. Peter Healing the Sick with his
Shadow, 1426-1427
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Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna Litta, c.1490-1491
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Giorgione, The Tempest, c. 1505
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Raphael, Portrait of Castiglione, 1514-1515
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Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, 1510