Word: vasari
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Last-Supper-carved-on-a-peachstone declamation, were filled with grave and intense emotion. As with Bernini a century later, we do Stoss a big injustice if we suppose his intimidating virtuosity was in some way hollow. "A miracle in wood," wrote the 16th century Italian art chronicler Giorgio Vasari on seeing one of Stoss's carvings that had found its way to Florence. It was done "with such subtlety as to amaze the world...
...page from Italian Renaissance artist Giorgio Vasari's "Libro de' Disegni"--purchased last summer by New York real estate developer fan Woodner--headlines a group of Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, which opened last weekend at the Fogg...
...Washington (A Capitol Offense). He had also known and much liked Fletcher's wacky, lovely wife Gloria, who died driving her Jag too fast. In fairly short order, given his necessity to invoke Goethe, Swinburne, Auden, the Old Testament, Shakespeare, Conrad, Dostoyevsky, The Barber of Seville, Beethoven, Berenson, Vasari and other fonts of circumstantial wisdom, Usher stumbles into a morass of rot in Mass. As friends keep telling him, "Things don't happen to you: you happen to things...
...gave glowing reviews of several Abrams art books, for which we are most grateful [Dec. 10]. Your reviewer makes one unfortunate comment when he refers to Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects in the boxed edition as having "spines of imitation leather" and suggests that "real cloth would have been classier." The fact is that the spines of these books are indeed genuine leather...