BIB_ID
330577
Accession number
MA 2477.64
Creator
Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574.
Display Date
1567 May 3.
Credit line
Purchased, 1966.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 29 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed to Caccini in Pisa.
Docketed.
Part of a collection of letters from Giorgio Vasari primarily to Giovanni Caccini, Ducal Administrator in Pisa. Letters in the collection have been described separately in individual catalog records; see related collection-level record for more information.
Docketed.
Part of a collection of letters from Giorgio Vasari primarily to Giovanni Caccini, Ducal Administrator in Pisa. Letters in the collection have been described separately in individual catalog records; see related collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Piero Ginori Conti collection; purchased from Carlo Chiesa in 1966.
Summary
Concerning Palazzo Vecchio, with reference to the painting of the ceiling panels and walls [by Battista Naldini], who had been invited to Pisa so he could paint from life; also concerning the Uffizi, with reference to the dispatch of marble [for the group of the Duke between Justice and Reason to be sculpted by Vincenzo Danti]; also concerning Michelangelo's tomb, with reference to soliciting the quarrying and dispatch of marble.
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