Editing Giorgio Vasari (section)

==Painting==
[[File:Giorgio Vasari - Six Tuscan Poets - Google Art Project.jpg|thumbnail|''[[Six Tuscan Poets]]'' by Giorgio Vasari, {{Circa|1544}}; from left to right: [[Cristoforo Landino]], [[Marsilio Ficino]], [[Petrarch|Francesco Petrarca]], [[Giovanni Boccaccio]], [[Dante Alighieri]], and [[Guido Cavalcanti]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://collections.artsmia.org/art/1850/six-tuscan-poets-giorgio-vasari|title=Six Tuscan Poets, Giorgio Vasari|publisher=Minneapolis Institute of Art}}</ref>]]In 1529, he visited [[Rome]] where he studied the works of [[Raphael]] and other artists of the Roman [[High Renaissance]]. Vasari's own [[Mannerist]] paintings were more admired in his lifetime than afterwards. In 1547, he completed the hall of the chancery in [[Palazzo della Cancelleria]] in Rome with frescoes that received the name [[Sala dei Cento Giorni]]. He was regularly employed by members of the [[Medici family]] in [[Florence]] and Rome. He also worked in [[Naples]] (for example on the [[Vasari Sacristy]]), Arezzo, and other places. Many of his paintings still exist, the most important being on the wall and ceiling of the Sala di Cosimo I in the [[Palazzo Vecchio]] in Florence,<ref name=EB1911/> where he and his assistants worked from 1555. Vasari also helped to organize the decoration of the [[Studiolo of Francesco I|Studiolo]], now reassembled in the Palazzo Vecchio.[[File:Giorgio Vasari - The Garden of Gethsemane - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''The Garden of Gethsemane'' by Giorgio Vasari]]In Rome, Vasari painted frescos in the [[Sala Regia (Vatican)|''Sala Regia'']]. Among his better-known pupils or followers are [[Sebastiano Flori]], [[Bartolomeo Carducci]], [[Mirabello Cavalori]] (Salincorno), [[Stefano Veltroni]] (of [[Monte San Savino]]), and [[Alessandro Fortori]] (of Arezzo).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BaIZAAAAYAAJ ''The History of Painting in Italy: The Florentine, Sienese, and Roman schools''], by Luigi Lanzi, page 201-202.</ref> His last major commission was a vast ''[[The Last Judgement (Vasari and Zuccari)|The Last Judgement]]'' fresco on the ceiling of the [[cupola]] of the [[Florence Cathedral]] that he began in 1572 with the assistance of the Bolognese painter [[Lorenzo Sabatini]]. Unfinished at the time of Vasari's death, it was completed by [[Federico Zuccari]].