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SYMHC Classics: Giorgio Vasari

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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'I'm Busy Yall'

In the life of giotto, he describes the artist drawing a perfect circle when a sample of his work was requested. The story claimed that a courtier visited giotto tell him that pope benedict the eleventh wished to commission a new painting for saint peter's He needed to see prospective artists work to make this decision. And vasari wrote giato, who was a man of courteous manners, immediately took a sheet of paper and, with a pen dipped in red, fixing his arm firmly against side to make a compass of it. With a turn of his hand, he made a circle so perfect that it was a marvel to see it. Having done

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