FIRENZE,
FLORENCE, FLORENZ, FLORENCIA
A VISIT TO THE
VASARIAN CORRIDOR part 2 |
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PART
2: INSIDE THE CORRIDOIO VASARIANO FROM THE UFFIZI TO PONTE VECCHIO |
| Giorgio
Vasari was a painter, an architect and a biographer. He was born in Arezzo and trained in
Florence, in the circle of Andrea del Sarto. He spent his life as a painter between
Florence and Rome where he studied the basic methods of the early Mannerist school of
painting. In Rome where he resided between 1542-1546, the Cardinal Farnese gave him his
first commission: the series of paintings in the Vatican Chancellery (Sala Regia in the
Vatican and the so-called 100 days fresco in the Cancelleria). Vasari's activities as
painter and architect have been completely overshadowed by his role as the most important
of all artistic biographers: in 1550 he published, in Florence, the first edition
(in 1568 he published a second, much enlargened edition also with Vasari's own
auto-biography) of the notes he had made during his travels around Italy with the title of
"Vite dè più eccellenti architetti, scultori e pittori". |
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This book is the
fundamental source of information on Italian Renaissance art. After the period in Rome,
Vasari return to Florence where under the protection of the Duke Cosimo de Medici, who had
a special project in mind which was the celebration of the Medici family and the glorious
past of Florence, Vasari was entrusted of the building of the Uffizi (1560) and of the
Corridoio Vasariano (Vasari Corridor), are in Florence also his principal paintings
(Palazzo Vecchio frescoes and galleries). Vasari was also the first important collector of
drawings, using them partly as research material for his biographies, he also founded in
1561 the Academy of Drawing. He died in Florence in 1574. |
HOTELS IN FLORENCE
 
| The stairs at the entrance of the
Corridoio Vasariano. |
The ceiling at the entrance of the
Corridoio Vasariano. |
| A view of Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge)
from the Corridoio Vasariano. |
A view of the goldsmiths shops of Ponte
Vecchio (Old Bridge) from the Corridoio Vasariano. |
| Inside the Corridoio Vasariano. |
 
| A view of the river Arno from the
Corridoio Vasariano. |
| A view of the river Arno and the
bridges of Florence from the Corridoio Vasariano. |
| A view of the river Arno and the
Oltrarno from the Corridoio Vasariano. |
| Inside the Corridoio Vasariano. |
A view of Ponte Vecchio from the
Corridoio Vasariano. |
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