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Did you know... that
Vasari disliked the "clumsy Greek style" of Italo-Byzantine painting that preceded the Renaissance?
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... that
Vasari disliked the "clumsy Greek style" of Italo-Byzantine painting(example pictured) that preceded the Renaissance? Omissi, Adrastos,
"Byzantium and Italian Renaissance Art": "Giorgio Vasari, the Italian painter turned historian, whose 1550 Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times essentially defined the renaissance – the rinascita – as a rejection of ‘that clumsy Greek style’ (quella greca goffa maniera) and the creation of a new naturalism that captured the human form in ways not known before"; see also Voulgaropoulou, Margarita, "From Domestic Devotions to the Church Altar: Venerating Icons in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Adriatic", in Ryan, Salvador (ed), Domestic Devotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 2020, MDPI Books, (reprint from Religions in 2019),
online top of p. 203.
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A fact from Italo-Byzantine appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 March 2021 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that
Vasari disliked the "clumsy Greek style" of Italo-Byzantine painting that preceded the Renaissance?
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
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The result was: promoted by
TJMSmith (
talk) 02:30, 24 March 2021 (UTC)reply
... that
Vasari disliked the "clumsy Greek style" of Italo-Byzantine painting(example pictured) that preceded the Renaissance? Omissi, Adrastos,
"Byzantium and Italian Renaissance Art": "Giorgio Vasari, the Italian painter turned historian, whose 1550 Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times essentially defined the renaissance – the rinascita – as a rejection of ‘that clumsy Greek style’ (quella greca goffa maniera) and the creation of a new naturalism that captured the human form in ways not known before"; see also Voulgaropoulou, Margarita, "From Domestic Devotions to the Church Altar: Venerating Icons in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Adriatic", in Ryan, Salvador (ed), Domestic Devotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 2020, MDPI Books, (reprint from Religions in 2019),
online top of p. 203.