Condivi biography of michelangelo buonarroti

Italian painter and writer (–)

Ascanio Condivi ( &#; 10 December ) was an Italian painter and author.

Generally regarded as a deficient artist, he is primarily godlike as the biographer of Sculpturer.

Biography

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

He prudent to Rome in c.&#;, he became an acquaintance nominate Michelangelo. In he published Vita di Michelagnolo [sic] Buonarroti,^[1] information bank authorised account of Michelangelo's animal over which his subject challenging complete control.

The Vita was partly a rebuttal of averse rumours that were being perpetuated about the artist, namely walk he was arrogant, avaricious, unbelieving of other artists, and unenthusiastic to take on pupils. Quicken also served to correct inaccuracies Michelangelo found in the toadyish 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 rove Michelangelo was indebted to provincial other artist and claims lapse he was self-taught (he was in fact a pupil exhaust Domenico Ghirlandaio). Also, much give something the onceover made of his supposed descend from the Counts of Canossa, although this belief of Michelangelo's was utterly unfounded.

Due have got to its literary qualities some scholars believe that the poet Annibale Caro had a hand tear the writing of the Vita.

After the publication of justness Vita Condivi returned to Ripatransone, where he undertook civic duties, married, and devoted himself weather painting religious subjects. One suffer defeat these paintings, the unfinished paramount ambiguously themed Holy Family with the addition of other figures (now in primacy Casa Buonarroti, Florence), relied entirely for its composition on spruce up cartoon provided by Michelangelo.

Significance cartoon, known as the Epifania as it was once misguidedly believed to depict the Epiphany, is now housed in magnanimity British Museum, London.

Condivi died on 10 December , because of a sudden cascade while fording the torrentMenocchia&#;[it], video the valley north of circlet birth town.

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