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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 associated with the Renaissance movement. Born in Arezzo and deceased in Florence, he served as a court painter and received the Order of the Golden Spur. His notable works include the Uffizi Gallery and the text *Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects*.

Vasari was a student of Guillaume de Marcillat and was a relative of Luca Signorelli. He taught several artists, including Peter Candid, Giovanni Battista Naldini, Jacopo Zucchi, and Federico Zuccari. His written contributions include *Vita di Lorenzo Costa*, *Vita di Lorenzo Lotto*, and *Le vite de piv eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scvltori italiani, da Cimabve insino a' tempi nostri*.

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Person · Open Library

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

Top works

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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Italy
Active from: 1511
Active to: 1574

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 19
Total plays: 63

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,930x
Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 6,816x
Homo Sacer
· 2020 · cited 6,799x
Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 6,626x
Equilibrium constants from a modified Redlich-Kwong equation of state
· 1972 · cited 5,596x

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Quotes

“Although Titian's works seem to many to have been created without much effort, this is far from the truth and those who think so are deceiving themselves. In fact, it is clear that Titian retouched his pictures, going over them with his colours several times, so that he must obviously have taken great pains. The method he used is judicious, beautiful, and astonishing, for it makes pictures appear alive and painted with great art, but it conceals the labour that has gone into them.”
“Titian, having adorned Venice, or rather all Italy and other parts of the world, with excellent paintings, well merits to be loved and respected by artists, and is in many things to be admired and imitated also, as one who has produced, and is producing, works of infinite merit; nay, such as must endure while the memory of illustrious men shall remain.”
“I think that anyone who will take the trouble to consider the matter carefully will arrive at the same conclusion as I have, that art owes its origin to Nature herself, that this beautiful creation the world supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.”

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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