BIB_ID
330578
Accession number
MA 2477.65
Creator
Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574.
Display Date
1567 Sept. 19.
Credit line
Purchased, 1966.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 29.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to Busini 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.
Vasari's letter to Busini is written below a letter from Italian sculptor Battista Lorenzi, also to Busini, and also concerning Michelangelo's tomb.
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.
Vasari's letter to Busini is written below a letter from Italian sculptor Battista Lorenzi, also to Busini, and also concerning Michelangelo's tomb.
Provenance
Piero Ginori Conti collection; purchased from Carlo Chiesa in 1966.
Summary
Concerning Michelangelo's tomb, with reference to soliciting the quarrying and dispatch of marble.
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