The First Fruits of the Earth Offered to Saturn
Catalogue
- Year
- 1555
- Dimensions
- 6 3/4 x 15 7/16in. (17.2 x 39.2cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Giorgio Vasari
Artist
Painting
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of Western art-historical writing, and still much cited in modern biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, although he is since regarded as including many factual errors, especially when covering artists from before he was born.
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- Giorgio Vasari
- Year
- 1555
- Dimensions
- 6 3/4 x 15 7/16in. (17.2 x 39.2cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1555-T004721
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
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- Status
- verified