Word: vasari
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...enough about; them and their painters to give the: layman some notion of why they are considered great. 'This it entertainingly does. The style is wordy with adjectives, descriptive rather than critical, anecdotal rather than illuminative of fundamental principles. It might almost have been written by Giorgio Vasari. As a revelation of the mind of one of the leaders of modern painting, the Outline is strangely conventional and uninspired...
...auction sale held in London last week, the Fogg Museum acquired parts of a large altarpiece by Spinello Aretino, the central panel of which is now in the Fogg Museum. This picture was described by Vasari as being painted for the convent of Monte Oliveto, near Siena, in 1385. The great altarpiece has long since been dismembered and scattered. Certain parts are in Siena, some are in Budapest, and the central panel, representing the Madonna and Child and Angels, went first to a collection in Florence, later to London, and has now been in the Fogg Museum for eleven years...