Vasari, Giorgio
Died: 1574 AD, at 62 years of age.
Nationality: Italian
Categories: Architects, Artists, Designers, Painters
1511 - Giorgio Vasari, born on the 30th ofJuly in Arezzo, NC Italy. He was an Italian painter and architect, known for his famous biographies of Italian artists.
1527 - He studied under Andrea del Sarto, and lived mostly at Florence and Rome.
1550 - He was an architect and painter, best known for his design of the Uffizi in Florence, but today his fame rests on The Lives of the Most Eminent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors (trans title), which remains the major source of information on its subject.
1563 - He helped found the Florence Accademia del Disegno (now the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze), with the Grand Duke and Michelangelo as capi of the institution and 36 artists chosen as members.
1574 - Died on the 27th of June in Florence, Italy.
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The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics) by Giorgio Vasari (Paperback - Jul 16, 1998) These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects (Everyman's Library) by Giorgio Vasari (Hardcover - Nov 5, 1996) (Book Jacket Status:...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Vasari on Technique by Giorgio Vasari (Paperback - Jun 1, 1960) Great craftsman and biographer's full, readable discussions of architecture— orders, pavements, planning and design, etc.; sculpture— modelling in wax and clay, tools and materials used... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Modern Library Classics) by Giorgio Vasari (Paperback - Feb 14, 2006) A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Vasari's Lives of the Artists: Giotto, Masaccio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian by Giorgio Vasari (Paperback - Jul 26, 2005) Vasari's colorful and detailed portraits of the most representative figures of Italian art trace the flowering of the Renaissance across three centuries. This single-volume edition of selections from... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Great Masters (Library of Great Masters) by Giorgio Vasari (Hardcover - Dec 24, 1986) |
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