Giorgio Vasari

Florentine, 1511 - 1574

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Italian painter, architect, writer and historian (1511-1574)

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Four drawings of faces and bodies are affixed onto a larger vertical album page, on which architectural decorations have been drawn on to act as frames. Three vertical drawings are spaced along the top half of the ivory-colored album page, and one larger horizontal drawing fills the bottom half. Drawn with brown ink and gray washes, the frames resemble moldings and scrolls around each drawing, with garlands flanking the bottom sketch. The three drawings in the top zone are done with metalpoint on gray or mauve paper and are highlighted with touches of white. The metalpoint technique creates faint silvery-gray lines. In the top left drawing, a nude man stands facing us. In the center, the face of a cleanshaven young man with curling hair beneath a cap looks down and to our left. Below the face, a forearm and hand clutching a rock appears next to another study of a hand. In the drawing to our right, a man wearing a toga-like robe leans on a walking stick, facing our left in profile. The drawing at the bottom is done with gray metalpoint lines and white strokes against golden yellow paper. A person sits and twists up in a spiral to our left. In the center of this drawing are three studies of muscular legs. Then, to our right, a man sits on a throne holding a spear or scepter and globe, facing our right in profile. An inscription in the frame below the bottom drawing reads, “Filippo Lippi Pitt: Fior:”
The "Chief Framer", Giorgio Vasari, Raffaellino del Garbo, Sandro Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, Page from the Collection of Niccolò Gaddi (So-Called "Vasari Page"), Sheets probably 1480-1504; mounting & framework c. 1575/1590, album page with ten drawings on recto and verso in various media with decoration in pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, on light buff paper, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1

Page from the Collection of Niccolò Gaddi (So-Called "Vasari Page")

The "Chief Framer", Giorgio Vasari, Raffaellino del Garbo, Sandro Botticelli, Filippino Lippi · Sheets probably 1480-1504; mounting & framework c. 1575/1590 · album page with ten drawings on recto and verso in various media with decoration in pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, on light buff paper ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1

Raffaellino del Garbo, The "Chief Framer", Saint Roch between Saints Anthony Abbot and Catherine of Alexandria, c. 1485/1495, gouache and brown wash heightened with white on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1.h

Saint Roch between Saints Anthony Abbot and Catherine of Alexandria

Raffaellino del Garbo, The "Chief Framer" · c. 1485/1495 · gouache and brown wash heightened with white on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1.h

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", Man with a Stick, c. 1500, metalpoint heightened with white on gray-prepared paper, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1.c

Man with a Stick

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer" · c. 1500 · metalpoint heightened with white on gray-prepared paper ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1.c

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", Various Figure Studies, c. 1493/1495, metalpoint heightened with white on ochre-prepared paper with borders by Vasari in brown ink, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1.d

Various Figure Studies

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer" · c. 1493/1495 · metalpoint heightened with white on ochre-prepared paper with borders by Vasari in brown ink ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1.d

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", Two Draped Women Standing on Either Side of a Herm, 1488/1493, metalpoint heightened with white on light green-prepared paper, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1.j

Two Draped Women Standing on Either Side of a Herm

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer" · 1488/1493 · metalpoint heightened with white on light green-prepared paper ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1.j

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", Standing Woman with Her Hands Clasped in Prayer, c. 1488, metalpoint heightened with white on gray-prepared paper, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1.i

Standing Woman with Her Hands Clasped in Prayer

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer" · c. 1488 · metalpoint heightened with white on gray-prepared paper ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1.i

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", Two Angels Carrying Torches, c. 1501, pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper, pricked for transfer, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1.g

Two Angels Carrying Torches

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer" · c. 1501 · pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper, pricked for transfer ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1.g

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", Dancing Putto Holding a Drapery, c. 1493/1497, pen and brown ink on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1.e

Dancing Putto Holding a Drapery

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer" · c. 1493/1497 · pen and brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1.e

A winged angel wearing a long billowing robe and holding a torch balances or lands on their left foot, on our right, in this vertical drawing. Created with dark brown ink against cream-white paper, the person is sketchily drawn so some of the details are indistinct. The right foot, on our left, is raised behind the angel, who looks down in that direction. A wing stretches out above, making an arc to our left. The edge of a column and base lines the right edge of the paper. The background behind the angel is slate blue. The drawing with the angel has been cut out near its edges and affixed to a sheet the same blue. Some white clouds billow up around the angel's feet.
Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", An Angel Carrying a Torch, c. 1500/1504, pen and brown ink and gray wash on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1.f

An Angel Carrying a Torch

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer" · c. 1500/1504 · pen and brown ink and gray wash on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1.f

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer", Standing Nude Youth, c. 1496, metalpoint heightened with white on gray-prepared paper, Woodner Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1991.190.1.b

Standing Nude Youth

Filippino Lippi, The "Chief Framer" · c. 1496 · metalpoint heightened with white on gray-prepared paper ·  Accession ID  1991.190.1.b