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Giorgio Vasari (/ v ə ˈ s ɑːr i /, also US: /-ˈ z ɑːr-, v ɑː ˈ z ɑːr i /, Italian: [ˈdʒordʒo vaˈzaːri]; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect, who is best known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of all art ...
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, architect, and writer who is best known for his important biographies of Italian Renaissance artists. When still a child, Vasari was the pupil of Guglielmo de Marcillat, but his decisive training was in Florence, where he enjoyed the friendship and patronage.
Giorgio di Antonio Vasari. Italian Painter, Architect, and Art Historian. Born: July 30, 1511 - Arezzo, Italy. Died: June 27, 1574 - Florence, Italy. Movements and Styles: High Renaissance. , Mannerism.
Giorgio Vasari was one of the foremost artists of 16th century Italy, renowned not only as a painter, draftsman, and architect, but also as the author of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, a series of artist biographies that formed the basis for modern art history.
Giorgio Vasari (Italian: [ˈdʒordʒo vaˈzaːri]; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer, and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.
Jun 18, 2017 · Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) National Trust, Tatton Park. Born in Arezzo, Tuscany, Vasari was a bright boy, classically trained and encouraged in drawing by his distant cousin Luca Signorelli. He went to Florence in 1524 to study under the patronage of the ruling Medicis with Andrea del Sarto.
Born in Arezzo, Tuscany, in 1511, Giorgio Vasari was a versatile artist. Painter, architect, art collector, writer and historian, Vasari is primarily acknowledged today as the author of 'The Lives of the Most Celebrated Painters, Sculptors and Architects'.
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.
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, best known for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the...
May 8, 2018 · Vasari, Giorgio (1511–74) Italian painter, architect, and biographer. Vasari's fame now rests on his history of Italian art, The Lives of the most excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550). This lively account is the single most important document of Italian Renaissance art.
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