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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.
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.
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