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Portrait of Condivi, Ascanio

Condivi, Ascanio

1525–1574

Born: 1525, Ripatransone
Died: 1574, Ripatransone
Gender: male

Occupations

painter
biographer
writer
sculptor
art historian

Biography

Condivi was a painter, but he is best known for his biography of Michelangelo, which was apparently in part dictated by Michelangelo himself and was influential in the writings of Giorgio Vasari (a 16th-century biographer of artists) about the life of Michelangelo. Italian author and artist.

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