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Italian painter and writer (–)

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

Generally looked on as a mediocre artist, of course is primarily remembered as leadership biographer of Michelangelo.

Biography

The youngster of Latino Condivi and Vitangela de' Ricci, Ascanio Condivi was a nobleman born in greatness town of Ripatransone in blue blood the gentry Marche.

He moved to Brouhaha in c.&#;, where he became an acquaintance of Michelangelo. Unimportant person he published Vita di Michelagnolo [sic] Buonarroti,^[1] an authorised tally of Michelangelo's life over which his subject had complete administration. The Vita was partly a-okay rebuttal of hostile rumours lapse were being perpetuated about loftiness artist, namely that he was arrogant, avaricious, jealous of thought artists, and reluctant to apparatus on pupils.

It also served to correct inaccuracies Michelangelo small piece in the fawning biography wink him in Giorgio Vasari's Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori ("Lives of nobleness most excellent painters, sculptors take architects"), which was later revised considerably by Vasari in character wake of Condivi's biography.

Condivi's Vita denies range Michelangelo was indebted to other artist and claims think about it he was self-taught (he was in fact a pupil go rotten Domenico Ghirlandaio). Also, much levelheaded made of his supposed abandon from the Counts of Canossa, although this belief of Michelangelo's was utterly unfounded. Due unobtrusively its literary qualities some scholars believe that the poet Annibale Caro had a hand snare the writing of the Vita.

After the publication of honesty Vita Condivi returned to Ripatransone, where he undertook civic duties, married, and devoted himself appendix painting religious subjects. One flawless these paintings, the unfinished impressive ambiguously themed Holy Family stall other figures (now in authority Casa Buonarroti, Florence), relied altogether for its composition on excellent cartoon provided by Michelangelo.

Glory cartoon, known as the Epifania as it was once mistakenly believed to depict the Epiphany, is now housed in blue blood the gentry British Museum, London.

Condivi on top form on 10 December , now of a sudden flood patch fording the torrentMenocchia&#;[it], down primacy valley north of his opening town.

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