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Giorgio Vasari

Also known as Giorgio Vasari II, Giorgio, II Vasari, Giorgio Vassalii, Georges Vasari, Giorgio Arettino, Giorgio Vasaro, Giorgio Vasaio, Giorgino di Rezzo

Italian painter, architect, writer and historian (1511-1574)

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Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) was an Italian painter, architect, art historian, and writer. Born Giorgio II Vasari in Arezzo, he worked during the Renaissance movement. His occupations included serving as a court painter. He studied under Guillaume de Marcillat and taught Peter Candid, Giovanni Battista Naldini, Jacopo Zucchi, and Federico Zuccari. Vasari was a relative of Luca Signorelli and received the Order of the Golden Spur.

His notable works include the Uffizi Gallery and the *Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects*. He also produced *Vita di Lorenzo Costa*, *Vita di Lorenzo Lotto*, and *Lives of Italian painters*. His artistic genres encompassed history painting, religious painting, and portrait. His works are held in the collections of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and Museo del Prado. He died in Florence on 27 June 1574.

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Born: 30 July 1511
Died: 27 June 1574
Works: 479

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Vita di Lorenzo Costa
Vita di Lorenzo Lotto
Le vite de piv eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scvltori italiani, da Cimabve insino a' tempi nostri
Le vite de' piv eccellenti pittori, scvltori, et architettori, scritte, & di nuouo ampliate da m. Giorgio Vasari pit. et archit. aretino. Co'ritratti loro et con le nuoue vite dal 1550. insino al 1567, con tauole copiosissime de' nomi, dell'opere, e de'luoghi ou'elle sono
Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors, and architects

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Giorgio
Gender: male
Citizenship: Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Place of birth: Arezzo
Place of death: Florence
Occupation: visual artist
Position held: court painter
Languages spoken: Italian
Award: Order of the Golden Spur
Student of: Guillaume de Marcillat
Field of work: biographistics
Genre: portrait
Movement: Renaissance
Image: Zucchi, Jacopo - Vasari, Giorgio - Uffizi ICCD.jpg
Work location: Venice

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date of birth: 1511-07-30
date of death: 1574-06-27
relative: Luca Signorelli
Commons category: Giorgio Vasari
Commons Creator page: Giorgio Vasari
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
topic's main category: Category:Giorgio Vasari
student: Federico Zuccari
birth name: Giorgio II Vasari
described at URL: web.archive.org/web/20170904064843/http://www.khist.uzh.ch/architekturkontext/wiki/index.php?n=Themen.GiorgioVasari
name in native language: Giorgio Vasari
has works in the collection: Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille
start of work period: 1527-01-01
end of work period: 1574-01-01
member of: Accademia delle Arti del Disegno

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Giorgio Vasari, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of Western 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 since regarded as including many factual errors, especially when covering artists from before he was born.

Vasari was a Mannerist painter highly regarded both as a painter and architect in his day, but rather less so in later centuries. He was effectively what would later 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.

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Giorgio Vasari