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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.
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.
Dec 1, 2017 · Dec. 1, 2017. THE COLLECTOR OF LIVES. Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art. By Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney. Illustrated. 420 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $29.95. It is rare that a...
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'.
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...
Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is arguably the single most important source of information for artists of the Italian Renaissance. A painter himself, Vasari is better known for his collection of biographies of artists spanning the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries called the Lives of the Artists.
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