A BIT IN DEEP: GIORGIO VASARI

Given that Vasari was a great admirer of Michelangelo, the Hall of the Hundred Days has this name because Vasari told, with great pride, Michelangelo he had painted it in a hundred days.

Replied the bitchy Michelangelo: "And it shows."

Vasari was a painter of strength not great, but easy, quick, but not particularly original.

His "Lives" are an interesting source of information, but often the good Giorgio is rather imaginative, and his bias in favor of the "Florentine" is sometimes blatant.

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