Six Tuscan Poets
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| Artist | Giorgio Vasari |
| Year | 1544 |
| Medium | Oil on panel |
| Location | Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis |
Six Tuscan Poets is a 1544 oil on panel by the Florentine visual artist and writer Giorgio Vasari. The poets depicted depicted in the painting from left to right are Cino da Pistoia, Guittone d'Arezzo, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante Alighieri, and Guido Cavalcanti.
The work was commissioned from Vasari by the Tuscan arts patron Luca Martini.[1]
Today the painting is in the permanent collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.[2] In 2021 it was lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the exhibition The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570.[3]
References[]
- ^ Parker, Deborah (1998). "Vasari's "Portrait of Six Tuscan Poets": A Visible Literary History". Lectura Dantis (22/23): 45–62. JSTOR 44858246.
- ^ "Six Tuscan Poets, Giorgio Vasari ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art".
- ^ https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/822076
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