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- Manetti’s Vite di Filippo Brunelleschi is the first comprehensive biography of a single Italian artist to be written in the early Renaissance (Pacciani). It was the model for the later Vite of Giorgio Vasari.
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Manetti’s Vite di Filippo Brunelleschi is the first comprehensive biography of a single Italian artist to be written in the early Renaissance (Pacciani). It was the model for the later Vite of Giorgio Vasari.
Manetti is also famous for his short story, The Fat Woodworker, which recounts a cruel practical joke devised by Brunelleschi. [2] Furthermore, his supposed authorship of the biography of Filippo Brunelleschi has been widely discussed and analyzed. [ 3 ]
of Brunelleschi, Vita di Filippo di Ser Brunelleschi, attributed to Antonio di Tuccio Manetti (1423-1497) [1], The date of the biography is unknown. It was probably written after 1482 and some 60 years after the creation of the two panel paintings. At times Manetti's description is unclear, but the most detailed
Dome, in I436. It was echoed by FILIPPO's biographers, the so-called MANETTI about I485 and the famous VASARI about I550 (5), and further repeated in countless books during the centuries that followed. These literary accounts, and mainly VASARI'S classic Life of FILIPPO, gave both expression and per-manence to a popular feeling.
sculptor Filippo Brunelleschi between 1418 and 1425 is found in the Vita di Filippo Brunelleschi, written by his first biographer Antonio di Tucci Manetti, an adherent of neoplatonismo Brunelleschi demonstrated his new method of representation on two painted panels, both lost to us today. The first panel, which showed the
Manetti was an old man when he wrote The Life of Brunelleschi. He claims to have known and spoken to Brunelleschi, but it is well for us to keep in mind that Manetti was only 23 years old at the time of Brunelleschi's death.
These, as the architect's biographer Manetti noted, disrupted the symmetry originally envisioned and introduced some errors in certain ornamental details, but otherwise the building as it was completed did not diverge substantially from Brunelleschi's intentions.
