Ascanio condivi biography
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Full Name: Condivi, Ascanio
Gender: male
Date Born:
Date Died:
Place Born: Ripatransone, Ascoli Piceno, Marches, Italy
Place Died: Ripatransone, Ascoli Piceno, Marches, Italy
Home Country/ies: Italy
Subject Area(s): Italian (culture or style) and Renaissance
Overview
Painter and purported author of an early and generally reliable biography of Michelangelo in Condivi came from a merchant family in Ripatransone where he was raised. He attended school there for five years beginning in He moved to Rome around , where he met the senior Michelangelo and entered his workshop. During the same time that Giorgio Vasari wrote his first edition of his Le vite de più eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori (Lives of the Artists), , Condivi determined to write a biography solely of Michelangelo. This became his Vita di Michelagnolo Buonarroti, which appeared in Scholars today believe Michelangelo virtually dictated the entire text to Condivi (Gilbert). After a rich biography, Condivi ends with a series of anecdotes to illustrate the notion of respect that Michelangelo achieved in his own time. Vasari used Condivi&#;s Vita to rewrite and correct the account that had appeared his own book for a second edition of In one extant edition of Condivi&#;s book,
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Ascanio Condivi
Italian painter and writer (–)
Ascanio Condivi | |
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| Born | Ripatransone, Marche |
| Died | 10 December () (aged&#;48–49) Menocchia |
| Occupation | Painter and writer |
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Ascanio Condivi ( &#; 10 December ) was an Italian painter and writer. Generally regarded as a mediocre artist, he is primarily remembered as the biographer of Michelangelo.
Biography
[edit]The son of Latino Condivi and Vitangela de' Ricci, Ascanio Condivi was a nobleman born in the town of Ripatransone in the Marche.
He moved to Rome in c.&#;, where he became an acquaintance of Michelangelo. In he published Vita di Michelagnolo [sic] Buonarroti,[1] an authorised account of Michelangelo's life over which his subject had complete control. The Vita was partly a rebuttal of hostile rumours that were being perpetuated about the artist, namely that he was arrogant, avaricious, jealous of other artists, and reluctant to take on pupils. It also served to correct inaccuracies Michelangelo found in the fawning 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 la