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 
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}