Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 06 (of 10): Fra Giocondo to Niccolo SoggiVasari, Giorgio
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Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 06 (of 10): Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi
Vasari, Giorgio
Art, Italian; Artists -- Italy -- Biography
Giuliano made for Filippo Strozzi a couch of walnut-wood, which is now
at Citta di Castello, in the house of the heirs of Signor Alessandro
Vitelli. For an altar-piece which Giorgio Vasari painted for the
high-altar of the Abbey of Camaldoli in the Casentino, he made a very
rich and beautiful frame, after the design of Giorgio; and he carved
another ornamental frame for a large altar-piece that the same Giorgio
executed for the Church of S. Agostino in Monte Sansovino. The same
Giuliano made another beautiful frame for another altar-piece by the
hand of Vasari, which is in the Abbey of Classi, a seat of the Monks of
Camaldoli, at Ravenna. He also executed the frames for the pictures by
the hand of the same Giorgio of Arezzo that are in the refectory of the
Monks of the Abbey of S. Fiore at Arezzo; and in the Vescovado in the
same city, behind the high-altar, he made a most beautiful choir of
walnut-wood, after the design of Giorgio, which provided for the
bringing forward of the altar. And, finally, a short time before his
death, he made the rich and beautiful Ciborium of the most Holy
Sacrament for the high-altar of the Nunziata, with the two Angels of
wood, in full-relief, which are on either side of it. This was the last
work that he executed, and he passed to a better life in the year 1555.
Nor was Domenico, the brother of that Giuliano, inferior to him in
judgment, seeing that, besides carving much better in wood, he was also
very ingenious in matters of architecture, as may be seen from the house
that was built for Bastiano da Montaguto in the Via de' Servi after his
design, wherein there are also many works in wood by Domenico's own
hand. The same master executed for Agostino del Nero, in the Piazza de'
Mozzi, the buildings that form the street-corner and a very beautiful
terrace for that house of the Nasi formerly begun by his father Baccio.
And it is the common belief that, if he had not died so young, he would
have surpassed by a great measure both his father and his brother
Giuliano.
VALERIO VICENTINO, GIOVANNI DA CASTEL BOLOGNESE, MATTEO DAL NASSARO OF
VERONA, AND OTHER EXCELLENT ENGRAVERS OF CAMEOS AND GEMS
LIVES OF VALERIO VICENTINO, GIOVANNI DA CASTEL BOLOGNESE, MATTEO DAL
NASSARO OF VERONA, AND OTHER EXCELLENT ENGRAVERS OF CAMEOS AND GEMS
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