Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, historian, and architect (died 1574)

Giorgio Vasari

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

Giorgio Vasari 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…