Italian painter, architect, writer, and historian (1511–1574)
"Vasari" redirects here. For the Italian surname, see Vasari (surname).
Giorgio Vasari
Self-portrait (c. 1571–74), Uffizi Gallery
Born
(1511-07-30)30 July 1511
Arezzo, Republic of Florence
Died
27 June 1574(1574-06-27) (aged 62)
Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Education
Andrea del Sarto
Known for
Painting
architecture
art history
Notable work
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Movement
Renaissance
Spouse
Niccolosa Bacci
Giorgio Vasari (/vəˈsɑːri/, also US: /-ˈzɑːr-,vɑːˈzɑːri/,[1][2][3][4]Italian:[ˈdʒordʒovaˈzaːri]; 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-historical writing, and still much cited in modern biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, although he is now regarded as including many factual errors, especially when covering artists from before he was born.
Giorgio was a Mannerist painter who was highly regarded both as a painter and architect in his day, but rather less so in later centuries. He was effectively what would now be called the minister of culture to the Medici court in Florence, and the Lives promoted, with enduring success, the idea of Florentine superiority in the visual arts.
Vasari designed the Tomb of Michelangelo, his hero, in the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence that was completed in 1578. Based on Vasari's text in print about Giotto's new manner of painting as a rinascita (rebirth), author Jules Michelet in his Histoire de France (1835)[5] suggested the adoption of Vasari's concept, using the term Renaissance (rebirth, in French) to distinguish the cultural change. The term was adopted thereafter in historiography and is still in use today.
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^Michelet, Jules (1835). Histoire de France: Renaissance. Vol. VII. Paris.
GiorgioVasari (/vəˈsɑːri/, also US: /-ˈzɑːr-, vɑːˈzɑːri/, Italian: [ˈdʒordʒo vaˈzaːri]; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter...
renovation. The Vasari Corridor was built in five months by order of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici in 1565, to the design of GiorgioVasari. It was commissioned...
bears the original name. Cosimo commissioned GiorgioVasari to build an above-ground walkway, the Vasari corridor, from the Palazzo Vecchio, through the...
Three biographies were published during his lifetime. One of them, by GiorgioVasari, proposed that Michelangelo's work transcended that of any artist living...
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1568), GiorgioVasari used maniera in three different contexts: to discuss an artist's manner...
columns with classical Corinthian capitals. Nearly four centuries later GiorgioVasari wrote: "Guglielmo, according to what is being said, in the year 1174...
and of the high fashion, Arezzo was home to artists and poets such as GiorgioVasari, Guido of Arezzo and Guittone d'Arezzo and in its province to Renaissance...
rinascita ("rebirth") first appeared in Lives of the Artists (c. 1550) by GiorgioVasari, while the corresponding French word renaissance was adopted into English...
other neo-Platonic thinkers linked to Raphael. Finally, according to GiorgioVasari, the scene includes Raphael himself, the Duke of Mantua, Zoroaster and...
hall) with the Palazzo Pitti, in 1565 Cosimo I de' Medici had GiorgioVasari build the Vasari Corridor, part of which runs above the Ponte Vecchio. To enhance...
shading to suggest volume. According to Italian painter and historian GiorgioVasari, Cimabue was the teacher of Giotto, the first great artist of the Italian...
Dominican friar and Italian painter of the Early Renaissance, described by GiorgioVasari in his Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent". He...
the tondo were recognizable during Vasari's time. There are 11 individuals portrayed on the tondo. GiorgioVasari mentioned nine of them in his written...
book Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, GiorgioVasari wrote that Uccello was obsessed by his interest in perspective and would...
The Vasari Sacristy (Italian - Sacrestia del Vasari) or Old Sacristy (Italian - Sacrestia Vecchia) is a room in Sant'Anna dei Lombardi, Naples, Italy...
Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1550) by 16th-century art historian GiorgioVasari. Tax records indicate that by at least 1457 he lived in the household...
still travelling in the Americas) by painter and architect GiorgioVasari. According to Vasari, the young Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi had designed...
to nature" and of his publicly recognized "talent and excellence". GiorgioVasari described Giotto as making a decisive break from the prevalent Byzantine...
in the early 14th century.[citation needed] During the Renaissance, GiorgioVasari made note of the pigment under the name terra rossa. Along with umber...
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