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May 8, 2018 · VASARI, GIORGIO (1511 – 1574), Italian biographer, painter, and architect. Born in the Tuscan town of Arezzo, Giorgio Vasari was brought in his early years to Florence, where he eventually became a prolific painter and highly accomplished architect.
Jul 18, 2022 · 31 March – 18 July 2022. Giorgio Vasari created what was probably the first collection of drawings based on a historicising logic: the legendary Libro de’ disegni, widely mentioned in the second edition of The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, published in Florence in 1568 by the Giunti house.
Jul 22, 2019 · According to Giorgio Vasari, his seminal art history text Lives of the Artists was conceived one summer evening in 1550, at a dinner party in the Roman palazzo of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. The guest list was luminous, though Vasari, a thirty-something painter just beginning to make his mark in Rome, was very much a junior at the table.
