The Florentine Renaissance artist Piero di Cosimo ... By the end of his life, he was – according to Giorgio Vasari – “so strange and eccentric that nothing could be done with him”.

with large porthole windows and 106 steps — was built in just five months by Renaissance painter and architect Giorgio Vasari. Its purpose was to provide the ruling family with a safe way to ...

Tom Conti stars as Medici court artist Giorgio Vasari in a story of pride, love and legacy combined with an epic journey through the art of the Renaissance. Written by Eileen Horne.

By Giorgio Vasari’s account of the artist’s life ... even as his later work leaves behind the divine harmony of the High Renaissance for something more mannerist—and modern.

The passage was commissioned by Cosimo I de' Medici, the Duke of Florence, and designed by the renowned Renaissance painter and architect Giorgio Vasari. Constructed in just five months ...

The authors use the writing of the great Renaissance chronicler Giorgio Vasari to show that, in fact, Giorgione was simply adopting Leonardo’s idea. In the second edition of his volume The Lives ...

The corridor, named after the Renaissance architect and biographer Giorgio Vasari, who designed it, is some 750 meters (820 yards) long. It stretches from the Uffizi Museums to the imposing ...

A Renaissance-era raised passageway that connects Florence's Uffizi Galleries to the Medici's former residence, Palazzo Pitti, will reopen to the public on Saturday, offering spectacular views of the ...

and biographer Giorgio Vasari used the term rinascita, or “rebirth.” Referred to as the Renaissance by modern scholars, the period from around 1300-1600 is identified by an unmistakable reanimation—a ...

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — For centuries, Florence’s 16th-century Vasari Corridor was only accessible to dukes and lords. Now, the raised passageway that connects the city's Uffizi Galleries to ...