No Cure For The Medieval Mind

1968. One last anecdote deserves mention also, and it is about Giotto. It is said that when he was an apprentice he painted a fly on h...

  1956. Pietro, being by nature upright and honest, took it ill that the prior should distrust him, and thought how he could sham...

  1964. To understand this story you must know that this person, Piero Soderini was the most powerful man in Florence at that time, a...

 1960. But now we come to the most important anecdote Vasari ever recorded. An anecdote that reveals the soul of a great artist and at the...

  1952. Giotto with his gesture makes a fool of the Pope, but he does not get away with it. His prank becomes a legend, and is handed down...

  1948. I must admit that when the artist who was restoring the mural at the library told me that an artist had to draw a circle with his ...

1944. But only the arm from the elbow to the fingers can be used to generate a circle, and only if it is anchored at the hip, as Vasari...