Example sentences for: vasari

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  • The décor celebrates Florentine power — Vasari frescoes of victories over Siena and Pisa and Michelangelo’s Victory statue.

  • Michelangelo’s tomb (right aisle, second bay) was designed by Vasari, with symbolic statues of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture mourning beneath a bust of the Florentine-born artist who died at 89.

  • Vasari’s greatest architectural work, it is now the home of one of the world’s most famous and important art galleries.

  • Duke Cosimo had Vasari design it in 1560 as a series of government offices (hence its name), a mint for the city’s florin, and workshops for the Medici’s craftsmen.

  • In gentle contrast to the austere Italian Gothic exterior of the Palazzo Vecchio by Arnolfo di Cambio (architect of the Duomo), Vasari added ornate stucco and frescoes to the first inner courtyard for a Medici wedding in the 1560s (the palazzo served briefly as a Medici residence until they moved across the river to the Palazzo Pitti).


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