List of Famous people with last name Vasari

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio II Vasari

First Name Giorgio

Last Name Vasari

Born on July 30, 1511

Died on June 27, 1574 (aged 62)

Born in Italy, Tuscany

Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, best known for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing. Based on Vasari's text about Giotto's new manner of painting, Jules Michelet suggested for the first time the term Renaissance in his Histoire de France (1835), a term adopted by historiography and still in use today.

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