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... Cosimo de' Medici for whom he built The Uffizi, the goverment offices. He painted frescos in the Chancellery Palace, in the Palazzo Vecchio, in the Sixteenth Century Salon and in Francesco I's appartments. As a painter,his work affected kind of mannerism. Vasari was one of the most prolific decorators of his period, although today not highly regarded. His own house in Arezzo ... ...
... the most famous paintings in all of historyy was created during this period: the portrait of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, also known as La Gioconda, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. The painting is of a woman, dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day and seated in a visionary, mountainous landscape. Leonardo used remarkable sfumato technique of soft, heavily shaded ... ...
... the common residents of the town, considering them to be inferior. Despite the possible downfalls that the republic had on Venice, they had much power throughout Europe. "The philosopher-poet Francesco Petrarch (1304-74) called it mundus alter, another world." (Brown, 9) In Florence, which is considered to be the most important center of Renaissance learning in history, the Medici family dominated ... ...
