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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.
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.
Jul 13, 2022 · Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter and architect who rose to fame during the Renaissance. A man of many talents, Vasari was also a writer. His renowned novel The Lives of the Most Eminent Sculptors, Painters, and Architects (1550) earned him the title “The Father of Art History”. Table of Contents [ Show]
Jun 18, 2017 · Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) National Galleries of Scotland. He is careless with dates, some of his anecdotes are hearsay or traditional myths, but, particularly with the artists of his own day, he is still a fundamental source of information on Renaissance art.
information@nationalgallery.org.uk. 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'.
Dec 23, 2013 · Giorgio Vasari's "The Last Supper," from 1546, reassembled for the first time in nearly 50 years. Archives of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence. Cecilia Frosinini, a conservator on the...
Jul 30, 1511 - Jun 27, 1574. Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, best known for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and...
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