Brief biography of michelangelo

Italian painter and writer (–)

Ascanio Condivi
Born	Ripatransone, Marche
Died	10 December () (aged&#;48–49) Menocchia
Occupation	Painter and writer
Relatives	Latino Condivi (father) Vitangela de' Ricci (mother)

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

The son of Latino Condivi and Vitangela de' Ricci, Ascanio Condivi was a nobleman born in the town of Ripatransone in the Marche.

Ascanio condivi biography of michelangelo paintings 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.

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 later revised considerably by Vasari in the wake of Condivi's biography. Condivi's Vita denies that Michelangelo was indebted to any other artist and claims that he was self-taught (he was in fact a pupil of Domenico Ghirlandaio).

Also, much is made of his supposed descent from the Counts of Canossa, although this belief of Michelangelo's was utterly unfounded. Due to its literary qualities some scholars believe that the poet Annibale Caro had a hand in the writing of the Vita.

Ascanio condivi biography of michelangelo paintings images Ascanio Condivi was a young pupil and assistant of Michelangelo's who gained the trust and confidence of the great artist. His biography of Michelangelo to a large extent is based on the artist's own words, tells the story of his life, his relationship with his patrons, his objectives as an artist, and his accomplishments, forming the basis of a biography that has been central to the study of.

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

The cartoon, known as the Epifania as it was once erroneously believed to depict the Epiphany, is now housed in the British Museum, London.

Condivi died on 10 December , because of a sudden flood while fording the torrentMenocchia&#;[it], down the valley north of his birth town.

Biography of donatello In Condivi married the niece of Annibale Caro (), a friend of Michelangelo; possibly Annibale may have been the true author of the Condivi’s Vita. Condivi returned to painting in his home in Ripatransone in As an artist, Condivi had “an appalling degree of incompetence” (Wilde), even when Michelangelo assisted him.

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