Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasariwas an Italian painter, architect, writer, and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth3 July 1511
CountryItaly
beautiful debt giotto
In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a model and whose finest and most beautiful aspects they are always striving to imitate and reproduce.
venice splits littles
It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can be made of any size desired, or else for convenience... so that they can be sent anywhere with very little trouble and expense.
beautiful art firsts
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model...
beauty memories exercise
The best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the muscles of the torso, back, legs, arms and knees, with bones underneath.