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Giorgio Vasari

67 works

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Painting of a kneeling bearded old man resisting a woman with cherubs, with a lion, a lake and mountains behind.

The Temptation of Saint Jerome

1541-48

Painting of Judith raising a sword over Holofernes on a bed, with an attendant watching beside a green curtain.

Judith and Holofernes

1554

Painting of two apostles laying hands on kneeling people beneath a white dove, with a crowd watching behind them.

Vasari - Apostles Peter and John Blessing the People of Samaria

1550

Painting of the Annunciation: Mary seated with a book, kneeling angel offering a lily, dove descending above a green curtain.

Annunciation

1563

Portrait of Alessandro de' Medici

1534

Mannerist painting of Vulcan seated with a shield in a vaulted forge, surrounded by nude smiths, putti and a helmeted Minerva

Vulcan's Forge

1540

Painting of the Holy Family: Mary holds a sleeping nude infant while an older man and woman look on from the sides.

Vasari - Sainte Famille, vers 1545

1545

Saint Mark seated with a halo, holding an open book with a quill and inkwell, with a winged lion at lower right.

Saint Mark

1570-1571

Saint Luke in colorful robes and a halo writes in a book beside a resting white ox on a dark background.

Saint Luke

1570-1571

Painting of a reclining bearded old man, a woman with a shield and crescent banner, and a flying cherub over hills.

Allegory of Fiesole

Painting of the Last Supper with Christ and twelve apostles gathered around a round table with bread and silver vessels.

Vasari - The Last Supper

1550

Painting of six men with laurel wreaths and red caps gathered around a table with a globe, books, and instruments.

Six Tuscan Poets

1544

Painting of a bearded prophet climbing stone steps while a crowd of robed men gathers in the foreground.

The Prophet Elisha

1566

Painting of an armored commander on a white horse leading soldiers past cannons, tents, a fortified town and ships at sea.

Capture of Porto Ercole

1568

Piero de' Medici called the Gouty

1556

Large battle scene with armored horsemen, pikemen, fallen soldiers and banners across a valley with hilltop towns.

The battle of Marciano in Val di Chiana

1570

Saint Luke with a halo writes in a book beside a resting ox, wearing green, red and yellow robes.

Saint Luke

1570

Painting of a seated ruler receiving ambassadors and soldiers, with horses, a giraffe, dogs, and a red banner in a stair-line

Lorenzo the Magnificent receives the tribute of the ambassadors

1556

Night scene of a kneeling figure in red praying as an angel offers a chalice, while three sleeping companions lie below.

ゲッセマネの祈り

1570

Full-length painting of a bearded man in gilded armour and red cape, with shields and a lion at his feet.

Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici

1555

Painting of a haloed bearded saint reading an open book beside a winged lion, wearing a red cloak against a dark background.

Saint Mark

1570

Fresco ceiling detail with a seated man reading a book beside an elder, framed by gilded stucco, with a city view below.

Allegory of Arezzo; to the bottom, view of Florence

1557

Fresco spandrel of a kneeling armored warrior beside a fallen figure, with a distant town and gilded stucco frame.

Allegory of Borgo San Sepolcro; to the bottom, view of Scarperia

1557

Ceiling lunette with a kneeling woman receiving a crown from an armored man, a hilltop town behind, gilded frame.

Allegory of Cortona; to the bottom, view of Montecarlo

1557

Painted ceiling panel of an armored warrior and allegorical women with a cornucopia, above a view of a walled city.

Allegory of Pisa; to the bottom, view of Siena

1557

Vasari painting in two tiers: a pope crowning a kneeling ruler in a church, and soldiers with trumpets beside a bull sacrific

Clement VII crowns Charles V in San Petronio in Bologna

1556

Ceiling fresco spandrel with an armored man, seated woman, reclining river god, and a harbor view of a fortified coastal town

Allegory of Pistoia; to the bottom, view of Piombino

1557

Ceiling fresco spandrel of an armored man handing a document to a youth, with a harbor town with lighthouses below.

Allegory of Prato; to the bottom, view of Livorno

1557

Oval portrait of two boys, one in a dark doublet and one in pink, against a green background, in a gilded frame.

Don Giovanni and Don Garzia de' Medici

1556

Ceiling fresco of an allegorical scene with a man offering a model building to a seated woman, above a view of a walled town.

Allegory of Volterra; to the bottom, view of Lucignano

1556

Painted frieze of Venus rising on a scallop shell, surrounded by sea nymphs, tritons, cupids and Neptune in blue water.

The birth of Venus

1555

Fresco of Saturn receiving fruit offerings from robed figures under a tree, with sea figures and a distant city.

The first fruits from earth offered to Saturn

1555