Giorgio Vasari Artist

Giorgio Vasari (Italian: [ˈdʒordʒo vaˈzari]; 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.

Personal facts

Giorgio Vasari
Birth dateJuly 30, 1511
Birth place
Arezzo , Tuscany
Nationality
Italy
Date of deathJune 27, 1574
Place of death
Florence , Italy

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Artist

Field of work
Architect
Painting
Influenced
Movement
Renaissance
training at
Andrea del Sarto

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Giorgio Vasari on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://artpaintingartist.org/giorgio-vasari-the-first-art-historian-1511-1574
  2. http://bepi1949.altervista.org/vasari/vasari00.htm
  3. http://biblio.cribecu.sns.it/vasari/consultazione/Vasari/indice.html
  4. http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/giorgio.vasari/vaspref.htm
  5. http://www.archive.org/details/storiesoftheital007995mbp
  6. http://www.articlemyriad.com/36.htm
  7. http://www.efn.org/~acd/vite/VasariLives.html
  8. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gvasari.htm
  9. http://www.storiarte.altervista.org/vasarielenco.htm