Giorgio Vasari
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Renaissance
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Arts, Architecture
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Artists, Artisans, Architects
- Curriculum: Italian History, Renaissance History
Article abstract: Modern knowledge of the lives and works of the principal, as well as a number of lesser, artists of the Renaissance derives almost exclusively from Vasari’s Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Vasari was also a minor painter and architect.
Early Life
Giorgio Vasari, from ancient Arezzo, a hill town dating from Etruscan times and rich in mementos of the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, was born into a family numbering several local artists among its antecedents. His father, Antonio, a tradesman,...
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