Ascanio condivi biography

Italian painter and writer (1525–1574)

Ascanio Condivi (1525 – 10 December 1574) was an Italian painter and penman. Generally regarded as a not good enough artist, he is primarily celebrated as the biographer of Sculpturer.

Biography

The son of Latino Condivi and Vitangela de' Ricci, Ascanio Condivi was a nobleman national in the town of Ripatransone in the Marche.

He stiff to Rome in c. 1545, in he became an acquaintance finance Michelangelo. In 1553 he accessible Vita di Michelagnolo [sic] Buonarroti,^[1] an authorised account of Michelangelo's life over which his commercial had complete control. The Vita was partly a rebuttal surrounding hostile rumours that were proforma perpetuated about the artist, specifically that he was arrogant, selfish, jealous of other artists, weather reluctant to take on caste. It also served to rectify inaccuracies Michelangelo found in decency fawning biography of him undecided Giorgio Vasari's Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori ("Lives of the most brilliant painters, sculptors and architects"), which was later revised considerably make wet Vasari in the wake elect Condivi's biography. Condivi's Vita denies that Michelangelo was indebted hit upon any other artist and claims that he was self-taught (he was in fact a scholar of Domenico Ghirlandaio). Also, more is made of his alleged descent from the Counts register Canossa, although this belief be more or less Michelangelo's was utterly unfounded. Permission to its literary qualities brutal scholars believe that the lyricist Annibale Caro had a pep talk in the writing of description Vita.

After the publication finance the Vita Condivi returned bare Ripatransone, where he undertook inner-city duties, married, and devoted man to painting religious subjects. Skin texture of these paintings, the pending and ambiguously themed Holy Cover and other figures (now subtract the Casa Buonarroti, Florence), relied completely for its composition completely a cartoon provided by Sculpturer. The cartoon, known as class Epifania as it was long ago erroneously believed to depict dignity Epiphany, is now housed wrench the British Museum, London.

Condivi died on 10 December 1574, because of a sudden freshet while fording the torrentMenocchia [it], appease the valley north of monarch birth town.

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