Artistic imprint
Because we can define Arezzo “the city of Vasari”? Undoubtedly the author of “The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, sculptorsand architects” spent much of his life between the Medici court of Florence and Rome, but it is in Arezzo that they bonded the origins of his family since the arrival of his grandfather, Giorgio di Lazzaro Taldi from Cortona, during the 15th century. A blood bond – as witnessed by documents coming from his archive – which is intertwined with the artistic imprint with which he left an indelible memory on the city, from Loggias of Piazza Grande to Casa Vasari, up to the project for the transformation of the abbey of Saints Flora and Lucilla and the paintings that embellish the churches of the Santissima Annunziata and the Santissima Trinità. Hence the project to connect, as in a map, the City Library of Arezzo, the Ivan Bruschi House Museum, the Fraternita dei Laici, the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art and Contemporary Art, the National Archaeological Museum ‘Gaio Cilnio Mecenate’, the National Museum of Medieval and Modern Art, the Vasari House Museum, the Diocesan Museum of Sacred Artthe State Archives and the Orodautore Museum, to give new importance to Vasari’s works and documents preserved in the various locations through targeted reports and exhibition dossiers. Underlining the importance that the city had in Vasari’s human and artistic experience.
