Ascanio Condivi
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Ascanio Condivi (1525 – 10 December 1574) was an Italian painter and writer. Generally regarded as a mediocre artist, he is primarily remembered as the
biographer of Michelangelo
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Biography
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The son of Latino Condivi and Vitangela de' Ricci, Ascanio Condivi was a nobleman born in the town of Ripatransone in the Marche.
He moved to
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.
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
Epifania as it was once erroneously believed to depict the Epiphany, is now housed in the British Museum, London
.
Condivi died on 10 December 1574, because of a sudden flood while fording the
torrent Menocchia
], down the valley north of his birth town.
References
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External links
Media related to Ascanio Condivi at Wikimedia Commons- Works by Ascanio Condivi at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Ascanio Condivi at Internet Archive
