A major proponent of the Mannerist style, he painted over Leonardo's deteriorating fresco of the Battle of Anghiari and produced many other works for his patron, Duke Cosimo
When Michelangelo heard that this contemporary and his workshop had completed a massive commission in less than one hundred days, the master snidely remarked, "So it seems." A major proponent of the Mannerist style, he painted over Leonardo's deteriorating fresco of the Battle of Anghiari and produced many other works for his patron, Duke Cosimo I in Florence. FOR TEN POINTS—name this sixteenth-century Italian, author of the two-volume biography of artists, Lives.
When Michelangelo heard that this contemporary and his workshop had completed a massive commission in less than one hundred days, the master snidely remarked, "So it seems.
Giorgio {Vasari}