Stories of the Italian Artists from VasariChatto and Windus, 1908 - 325 من الصفحات |
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afterwards Andrea del Sarto Andrea del Verrocchio answered Arezzo artists asked Baccio Bartolommeo beautiful began bronze brought Buffalmacco Buonamico Cardinal cartoon chapel Christ church Cimabue colours Cosimo death desired Domenico Donatello drawing Duke entrusted excellent fame father favour figures Filippo finished Florence Florentine Fra Bartolommeo France Francesco fresco friars friends gave Giorgio Giorgio Vasari Giorgione Giotto Giovanni Giuliano give goldsmith greatly hand heard Holiness honour Jacopo king labours leave Lionardo da Vinci lived Lorenzo Luca manner Mantua marble Mariotto marvellous Masaccio master Medici Michael Angelo never painted painter palace Paolo Paolo Uccello Perino picture Piero Piero Soderini pleased Pope portrait praised pupil Raffaello returned to Florence Rome Rosso Rustici saint Sandro saying sculpture Sebastiano seen sent showed Soderini statues surpassed things thinking Titian took Tuscany Urbino Vasari Venice
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الصفحة 8 - The messenger, unable to obtain anything more, went away very ill satisfied, and fearing that he had been fooled. Nevertheless, having despatched the other drawings to the Pope, with the names of those who had done them, he sent that of Giotto also, relating the mode in which he had made his circle...
الصفحة 85 - He altered nothing, but left all as it was done the first time, believing, as he said, that such was the will of God. It is also affirmed that he would never take the pencil in hand until he had first offered a prayer.
الصفحة 276 - It is true that his way of working in his last pictures is very different from that of his youth. For his first works were finished with great diligence and might be looked at near or far, but the last are executed with masses of color so that they cannot be seen near; but at a distance they look perfect.
الصفحة 147 - ... which no one entered but himself, lizards, grasshoppers, serpents, butterflies, locusts, bats, and other strange animals of the kind, and from them all he produced a great animal so horrible and fearful that it seemed to poison the air with its fiery breath. This he represented coming out of some dark rocks with venom issuing from its open jaws, fire from its eyes, and smoke from its nostrils, a monstrous and horrible thing indeed.
الصفحة 20 - Sacchetti also tells how, when Buffalmacco was still a boy with Andrea, his master had the habit, when the nights were long, of getting up before day to work, and calling his boys. This was displeasing to Buonamico, who had to rise in the middle of his best sleep, and he considered how he might prevent Andrea from getting up before day to work, and this was what occurred to him. Having found thirty great beetles in an ill-kept cellar, he fastened on each of their backs a little candle, and at the...
الصفحة 318 - A famous bronze relief by Daniele da Volterra shows a face lined with pain and haggard with age. In February, 1564, he grew weaker day by day, and spent most of the time sleeping in his old armchair. He made no will, but merely "left his soul to God, his body to the earth, and his goods to his nearest relations."05 He died on February 18, 1564, aged eighty-nine.
الصفحة 150 - Leonardo standing half a day lost in thought; and he would have liked him never to have put down his pencil, as if it were a work like digging the garden.
الصفحة 177 - one of those possessed of such rare gifts that it is impossible to call them simply men, but rather, if it is allowable to speak so, mortal gods.
الصفحة 277 - ... Venice, and returned to the imperial court at Augsburg again in 1550. His life from this time forward is little else than a succession of honors and triumphs. Vasari wrote his notice during the artist's life, and after having visited him in Venice. He says : When the present writer was in Venice in 1 566 he went to visit Titian, and found him, old as he was, with his brush in his hand painting, and he found great pleasure in seeing his works and talking with him. Of his work Vasari says : It...