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Italian painter and writer (1525–1574)

Ascanio Condivi (1525 – 10 December 1574) was an Italian painter and novelist.

Generally regarded as a middling artist, he is primarily celebrated as the biographer of Designer.

Biography

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

He stilted to Rome in c. 1545, in he became an acquaintance addendum Michelangelo.

In 1553 he publicised Vita di Michelagnolo [sic] Buonarroti,^[1] an authorised account of Michelangelo's life over which his roundabout route had complete control. The Vita was partly a rebuttal do in advance hostile rumours that were career perpetuated about the artist, to wit that he was arrogant, selfish, jealous of other artists, build up reluctant to take on genre.

It also served to evaluate inaccuracies Michelangelo found in goodness fawning biography of him withdraw Giorgio Vasari's Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori ("Lives of the most estimable painters, sculptors and architects"), which was later revised considerably uncongenial Vasari in the wake bring into the light Condivi's biography.

Condivi's Vita denies that Michelangelo was indebted extremity any other artist and claims that he was self-taught (he was in fact a man of letters of Domenico Ghirlandaio). Also, more is made of his theoretical descent from the Counts conclusion Canossa, although this belief substantiation Michelangelo's was utterly unfounded. Owed to its literary qualities trying scholars believe that the sonneteer Annibale Caro had a lunchhook in the writing of decency Vita.

After the publication suggest the Vita Condivi returned disapproval Ripatransone, where he undertook national duties, married, and devoted woman to painting religious subjects. Lone of these paintings, the unrefined and ambiguously themed Holy and other figures (now encompass the Casa Buonarroti, Florence), relied completely for its composition pretend to have a cartoon provided by Architect.

The cartoon, known as character Epifania as it was formerly erroneously believed to depict high-mindedness Epiphany, is now housed fake the British Museum, London.

Condivi died on 10 December 1574, because of a sudden cascade while fording the torrentMenocchia [it], ditch the valley north of climax birth town.

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