Michelozzo michelozzi biography of michael
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Lives Of Depiction Most Crest Painters Sculptors & Architects
by Giorgio Vasari:
Volume II: Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi
Newly Translated By Gaston du C. De Firm. With Cinque Hundred Illustrations: In Unfeeling Volumes
Philip Actor Warner, Owner To Depiction Medici Theatre group, Limited 7 Grafton Demanding. London, W. 1912-14
Contents Have a high opinion of Volume Ii
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| Berna | 1 |
| Duccio | 7 |
| Antonio Viniziano | 13 |
| Jacopo • Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects/Donato THE FLORENTINE SCULPTOR DONATO. The sculptor Donato,[1] called by his contemporaries Donatello, and who subscribes himself thus on some of his works, was born in Florence in the year 1386.[2] He devoted himself to the arts of design[3] and was not only an excellent sculptor and admirabie statuary, but was beside very skilful in works of stucco, well versed in the study of perspective, and highly esteemed as an architect. The productions of Donatello displayed so much grace and excellence, with such correctness of design, that they were considered to resemble the admirable works of the ancient Greeks and Romans more closely than those of any other master had ever done. Nor is it without good reason that he is acknowledged to be the first who conducted the practice of historical composition, in basso-rilievo, into the right path; his works of that kind giving proof of so much thought, power, and facility, that he is at once perceived to have had the true intelligence and mastery of that branch of art, which he exercised with extraordinary success, insomuch that he has not only remained unsurpassed in that style, but has never been equalled by any artist, eve • Renaissance architectureRenaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture. Stylistically, Renaissance architecture followed Gothic architecture and was succeeded by Baroque architecture and neoclassical architecture. Developed first in Florence, with Filippo Brunelleschi as one of its innovators, the Renaissance style quickly spread to other Italian cities. The style was carried to other parts of Europe at different dates and with varying degrees of impact. Renaissance style places emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry and the regularity of parts, as demonstrated in the architecture of classical antiquity and in particular ancient Roman architecture, of which many examples remained. Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes, niches and aediculae replaced the more complex proportional systems and irregular profiles of medieval buildings. Historiography[edit]The word "Renaissance" derives from the term rinascita, which means rebirth, first appeared in Giorgio Vasari's |