Flemish Northern Renaissance Painter, active ca.1490-1530  Related Paintings of Master of Hoogstraeten :. | The Adoration of the Magi | The Adoration of the Magi | The Adoration of the Magi | Madonna and Child with Sts Catherine and Barbara | Adoration of the Magi |
Related Artists:
Christoph Franz Hillner
painted Holy night in 1767
Pooley, Thomas
b.1646-d.1722
Giorgio Vasari
1511-74 Italian painter, architect, and writer. Though he was a prolific painter in the Mannerist style, he is more highly regarded as an architect (he designed the Uffizi Palace, now the Uffizi Gallery), but even his architecture is overshadowed by his writings. His Lives of the Most Eminent Architects, Painters, and Sculptors (1550) offers biographies of early to late Renaissance artists. His style is eminently readable and his material is well researched, though when facts were scarce he did not hesitate to fill in the gaps. In his view, Giotto had revived the art of true representation after its decline in the early Middle Ages, and succeeding artists had brought that art progressively closer to the perfection achieved by Michelangelo.