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"Bearded Man Filling a Glass" and "Youth Running"
Creator
Giorgio VasariItalian Artist · 1511–1574
All works by this person →One of Italy's busiest and most influential Mannerist artists, Giorgio Vasari's reputation as a biographer has eclipsed his artistic fame. His humanist education combined with artistic talent earned him patronage by the powerful Medici family. He studied in Florence and briefly under his idol Michelangelo Buonarroti. Around 1525 he worked in the workshop of Florentine painter and colorist Andrea d
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 1544–1545
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brown wash with touches of blue wash, heightened with white opaque watercolor, over traces of black chalk, on blue paper
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- a8de0cdb-358c-4718-a497-049a4d663901
From the Getty Museum record
Giorgio Vasari made these two studies as side panels for a tripartite painting in the ceiling of a Naples monastery. The central panel is now lost, though scholars believe that it depicted the *Feast in the House of Simon* , the New Testament event at which Mary Magdalene anointed Christ while Judas prepared to betray him. Vasari depicted the figures in Roman attire so viewers in the 1500s would understand that the painting tells a Biblical story. The entertaining spectacle of waiters serving food and drink illustrates Vasari's use of religious motifs to draw scenes of everyday life. On the left a bearded man fills a glass, surrounded by vases in various fantastic forms, while on the right two young men rush plates of steaming food to the table.
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