Holy Family with Saint Francis by Giorgio Vasari
Holy Family with the Holy Child, Saint John the Baptist and Saint Francis, by Giorgio Vasari (1544)
Giorgio Vasari is best remembered for writing one of the first and most influential art historical tomes, Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, Architects (1550), composed of artist biographies ranging from Classical antiquity through the Renaissance. He had a profound adoration for his friend Michelangelo, who received the most laudatory biography in the volume. It is less known that Vasari was also a practicing painter and architect who studied under the tutelage of Guillaume de Marcillat and Luca Signorelli. Vasari’s paintings drew inspiration from the Tuscan Mannerists, but were criticized by his contemporaries for lacking a mastery of color. Better regarded as an architect, Vasari’s most esteemed project was the structural design of the Uffizi in Florence.
Giorgio Vasari used a variety of techniques in his painting, architecture, and writing. His religious paintings used unnatural colors, exaggerated contrasts, and elongations of scale to create drama and elegance. Vasari used pastel tones to create a sympathetic quality in his subjects, and often added symbolism to their frames.
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