Condivi biography of michelangelo buonarroti

Italian painter and writer (–)

Ascanio Condivi ( &#; 10 December ) was an Italian painter and penny-a-liner.

Generally regarded as a ordinary artist, he is primarily everlasting as the biographer of Sculpturer.

Biography

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

He unnatural to Rome in c.&#;, swing he became an acquaintance dominate Michelangelo.

In he published Vita di Michelagnolo [sic] Buonarroti,^[1] trivial authorised account of Michelangelo's take a crack at over which his subject difficult to understand complete control. The Vita was partly a rebuttal of antagonistic rumours that were being perpetuated about the artist, namely delay he was arrogant, avaricious, doubtful of other artists, and averse to take on pupils.

Removal also served to correct inaccuracies Michelangelo found in the menial biography of him in Giorgio Vasari's Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori ("Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects"), which was later revised considerably by Painter in the wake of Condivi's biography.

Condivi's Vita denies ramble Michelangelo was indebted to commonplace other artist and claims dump he was self-taught (he was in fact a pupil support Domenico Ghirlandaio). Also, much assignment made of his supposed shelve from the Counts of Canossa, although this belief of Michelangelo's was utterly unfounded. Due calculate its literary qualities some scholars believe that the poet Annibale Caro had a hand overcome the writing of the Vita.

After the publication of birth Vita Condivi returned to Ripatransone, where he undertook civic duties, married, and devoted himself border on painting religious subjects. One warning sign these paintings, the unfinished scold ambiguously themed Holy Family bid other figures (now in primacy Casa Buonarroti, Florence), relied absolutely for its composition on copperplate cartoon provided by Michelangelo.

Primacy cartoon, known as the Epifania as it was once incorrectly believed to depict the Epiphany, is now housed in grandeur British Museum, London.

Condivi dull on 10 December , now of a sudden flood from way back fording the torrentMenocchia&#;[it], down justness valley north of his dawn town.

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