Ascanio Condivi

Ascanio Condivi (* 1525 in Ripatransone, † December 10, 1574 ibid ) was an Italian painter and author. He was a student and colleague of Michelangelo and his biographer. Condivi biography is next to the Vita Michelangelo by Vasari the most important written source for Michelangelo's life and work.

Life

Condivi was born the son of Latino Condivi and Vitangela de ' Ricci in Ripatransone, province of Ascoli Piceno, in the Marche. 1545 he went to Rome and was inducted into the workshop of Michelangelo. Whether and to what work he was involved, according to the sources can not yet be proven. Around this time Vasari wrote the first version of his Vite that came out in 1550 in print and contains a detailed biography and appreciation of Michelangelo. In the same year Condivi began writing their own biography of Michelangelo, which was printed in 1553 in Rome.

1554 Condivi returned back to Ripatransone, where he worked as a painter, but operated primarily as a businessman and held various offices in the church. In 1556 he married Portia Caro, a niece of Michelangelo's friend, the writer Annibal Caro, he was with her six children. 1565, a year after Michelangelo's death, he was inducted into the Florentine Academy. Condivi drowned on December 10, 1574 while attempting to cross a river in flood.

As a painter he seems to have been rarely worked even after returning to his homeland. Him be Attributed to the altarpiece "Mystery of the Rosary ", a " Madonna and Child", now in the Casa Buonarroti, and a " manifestation of the Lord ", created 1550-1554. 1567 he painted a triptych, a cross for the church of Santa Maria della Petrella, 1569 a fresco of the " Madonna del carmine " for the church of San Sovino.

Life of Michelangelo

Condivi book with the title Vita di Michel Agnolo Buonarroti raccolta by Ascanio Condivi da la Ripa Transone was printed in Rome in 1553 by the Offizin Antonio Blado Stampa gates. It is probably the first printed book that contains only the biography of a living artist, and was authorized by him. The extent to which the text of Condivi comes if Michelangelo it only monitors whether he dictated it Condivi in the spring or whether Michelangelo's friend, the writer Annibal Caro wrote the book is controversial in science. Publican assumes that Michelangelo himself initiated the book, Ascanio Condivi written it and Annibal Caro took over the editorship. With Condivi book Michelangelo could errors in Vasari's book, which affected his works straighten, such as which relate to the unfortunate problems with the Julius grave or the circumstances of the pope has commissioned the frescos of the Sistine Chapel and the stories that are told about the rivalry between Michelangelo, Raphael and Bramante. You can see there is therefore also an attempt Michelangelo, the rumors that were about him and his behavior in circulation counter Vasari used the book to correct in the second edition of his Vite of 1568 the text on Michelangelo and supplement.

The first edition of Condivi book is extremely rare. Three copies of the pressure from the July 16, 1553 are owned Venetian libraries, including two in the Biblioteca Marciana and one in the Biblioteca Civica Correr, a copy has the Vatican Library. 1746 published in Florence in a second edition of the book under the title " Vita di Michael Angelo, " by Ascanio Condivi which contains details of Condivi life in the preface.

Expenditure ( selection)

• Vita di Michel Agnolo Buonarroti raccolta by Ascanio Condivi da la Ripa Transone (Rome 1553) full text with an introduction and bibliographies Edited by Charles Davis., 2009. ( Fontes. 24 ), PDF
• Vita di Michel Agnolo Buonarroti pittore, scultore, architetto e gentiluomo fiorentino, pubblicata mentre viveva dal suo scolare Ascanio Condivi. 2nd ed, ed corretta accresciuta di varie annotazioni col ritratto del medesimo ed altre figure in rame. Firenze: By Gaetano Albizzini, 1746.
• The Life of Michelangelo. By Ascanio Condivi. Ed. by Hellmut well. Pennsylvania State University Press. 5th ed, 2003.
• Vita di Michelangelo Buonarroti. Edited by Giovanni Nencioni. With essays by Michael Hirst and Caroline Elam. Florence in 1998.