“Svegliando l’animo di molti a belle imprese – Il primato dei toscani nelle Vite del Vasari”
Arezzo, Basilica inferiore di San Francesco
3rd September 2011 – 9th January 2012
An unusual exhibition to mark the 500th anniversary of the year of Vasari’s birth, the lengthy title translates clumsily to ‘Awakening the soul of many beautiful works – important Tuscans in the ‘Lives’ writings of Vasari’.
Using modern audio and visual techniques, Vasari himself (born in Arezzo) becomes the guide on this journey through the works of Tuscan artists chronicled in his two major volumes.