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

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During his travels, Vasari took notes on various artists and paintings he encountered which resulted in his book, The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian.

During his travels, Vasari took notes on various artists and paintings he encountered which resulted in his book, The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian.

One of the greatest biographies of an artist ever written, and a key document of the Renaissance.

The biography printed here, from Vasari's much improved second edition, draws a picture of the man and the artist that has an immediacy and authority that are.

Revised and expanded in , Vasari's monumental work comprises more than two hundred biographies; for centuries it has been recognized as a seminal text in.

When Michelangelo was apprenticed into the craft with.

For the Italian surname, see Vasari (surname).

Giorgio Vasari (, ;^[1][2][3][4]Italian:[ˈdʒordʒovaˈzaːri]; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer who is best 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 now regarded as including many factual errors, especially when covering artists from before he was born.

Vasari was a Mannerist painter who was highly regarded both as a painter and architect in his day but rather less so in later centuries. He was effectively what would now be called the minister o