Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer, and historian. He is most known today for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.
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The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle piĆ¹ eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies written b... SEE MORE