Giorgio Vasari

Vasari chronicled many of Michelangelo’s commissions and the purpose’s to which they served. One of the largest that Michelangelo was given was to complete the tomb of Pope Julius (Vasari 439). This was a massive and significant undertaking by Michelangelo which required six full sculptures of various biblical figures arranged along one wall.

Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, as well as an architect and writer. Vasari was born on July 30, 1511 in Arezzo, Italy, he died on June 27, 1574 in Florence, Italy. Vasari is widely regarded as the “father of art history”. At the start of his career in painting, Michelangelo brought him under his wing. Legend has it that Vasari learned a lot of his painting techniques from the great Michelangelo. Vasari’s type of painting is that of the Tuscan Mannerists by experts. Overall, Vasari gave

Giorgio Vasari is known for being the first Art Historian. He wrote the seminal work The Lives of the Artists. But why did he write it? Of course every book is written for a purpose but I don’t think Vasari was writing just to inform people of art and artists. At the beginning of the 14th Century the value of artists and their craft began to rise. They had been a member of the guild system along with other valued members of the medieval economic system certainly but suddenly wealthy people not just

Venus of Urbino demonstrates a beautiful, young woman, Venus, lying nude on what appears to be a reclined couch or bed. However, the woman illustrated means much more than merely a nude woman. There have been many interpretations of this beautiful woman over the years but many art historians agree that the Venus of Urbino has to do unambiguously with the male sexual desire for the female nude body. Tiziano Vecellio, also documented, as Titian was an Italian painter. He was born sometime around 1470-1480

architects who after the manner of their barbarous nations erected buildings in that style which we call Gothic (dei Gotthi).” Florentine historiographer Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) was the first to label the architecture of preceding centuries “Gothic,” in reference to the Nordic tribes that overran the Roman empire in the sixth century. Vasari implied that this architecture was debased, especially compared to that of his own time, which had revived the forms of classical antiquity. Long since rid

FAH230 Critical Review of Giorgio Vasari’s Biography of Botticelli Giorgio Vasari was a terribly biased, over exaggerating writer who often incorporated his voice and opinion into historical documentations of the renaissance. This unique approach has earned him the title “father of art history” by setting the stage for art historical research for centuries to come. His documentation of the artists during the Renaissance is the now most referenced monumental text in the field of art history, Lives

Hi Michelangelo this is Giorgio Vasari. I was born into the artisan class of Arezzo. I am a painter, architect, and art historian. I was the son of a dealer in small goods. As i heard, I was apprenticed as a boy to Andrea del Sarto in Florence. I suffered at the hands of Andrea's wife, to judge from the waspish references to her in his life of Andrea. I have a very active career at the moment. I fulsomely praised the Medici family for forwarding my career from childhood, and much of my work was done

Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life is a very complex text presented in three detailed sections. The first section is an analysis of sovereignty, introducing it through Schmitt’s definition of sovereignty as being the one who decides on the exception. The second section is a survey of the idea of Homo Sacer: the person who cannot be sacrificed, but who can be killed. The final section then illustrates the role of the Auschwitz camp, which is known for its brutal murders and

If Giorgio Agamben’s concept of nudity is accurately understood as the opposite of concealment, or the removal of a veil, then his work Nudities also shows us the truth about inoperativity. This philosophy is less concerned with laziness or sloth within humanity than with the continuation of human actions in the politics of the future. Modern politics are vastly concerned with the lives of people everywhere. Not just their state of living, but their ways of living. Privacy is drastically changing

In, Life That Does Not Deserve to Live, Giorgio Agamben aims to expand on Michel Foucault’s concepts of ‘biopower’ and ‘biopolitics’, to express the way in which the state has power over society in the way that ‘bare life’ is produced. He uses the Latin term homo sacer – literally translated to ‘sacred man’ – to describe a life which can be “eliminated without punishment” , one that possesses no value to the state and therefore can be terminated without the act being considered a crime. Examples