Perino del vaga biography definition
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Piero Buonacorsi, PERINO DEL VAGA
(Florence - Rome )
Caesar on the River Aoös
Pen and brown ink and brown wash, extensively heightened with white, over traces of an underdrawing in black chalk.
Inscribed Cesar Ini…[M]iro il fiume…I aniene(?) in the lower margin and, in a different hand (Lanier?), Polidoro in the lower right margin.
x mm. (5 3/8 x 6 in.)
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This small drawing was first attributed to Perino del Vaga by Paul Joannides in , and published by him four years later. The drawing, which would appear to depict a scene from Roman history, is unconnected to any surviving painting or fresco by the artist. Although Joannides had identified the subject of this drawing as Caesar Crossing the Rubicon, Dominique Cordellier has recently recognized that the composition in fact depicts Caesar on the River Aoös, another episode from the Civil War. The river Aoös (also called the Anius or Aoüs), which flows thro
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In Michelangelo's Mirror
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Mannerism and Imitation
Oh how truly happy our age, oh blessed artificers who could well be called so, since in your time the source of all brightness has illuminated the darkness of your eyes. This marvelous and enskild artificer has made plain for you what before was difficult. Certainly you recognize and honor the glory of his efforts, which have taken away the förband covering your minds&#; eyes full of darkness, and he has shown you truth from the falsehood which molnig eller oklar the most beautiful abodes of the intellect. Thank therefore heaven and try to imitate Michelangelo in everything you do.
The present book stems from a long-lasting fascination with the painted works of Pellegrino Tibaldi (ca. &#;), by birth a Lombard but from an early age an inhabitant of Bologna. bygd , when his spectacular frescoes for a Bolognese patron marked his emergence as an independent artist, he had begun to imitate Michelangelo demonstratively in his paintings, bot
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Perino del Vaga
Italian painter (–)
Piero Bonaccorsi ( – October 19, ), known as Perino (or Perin) del Vaga, was an Italian painter and draughtsman of the Late Renaissance/Mannerism.
Biography
[edit]Perino was born near Florence.[1] His father ruined himself by gambling, and became a soldier in the invading army of Charles VIII. His mother died when he was but two months old; but shortly afterwards he was taken up by his father's second wife. Perino was first apprenticed to a druggist, but soon passed into the hands of a mediocre painter, Andrea de' Ceri,[2] and when eleven years of age, of Ridolfo Ghirlandaio.
Perino was one of Ghirlandaio's most talented pupils. Another mediocre painter, Vaga from Toscanella, undertook to settle the boy in Rome. Perino, when he at last reached Rome, was utterly poor, and with no clear prospect beyond journey-work for trading decorators. He was eventually entrusted with some of the subordinate work under