Giorgio Vasari Italian painter and architect

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Giorgio Vasari Italian painter and architect
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Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)
Fresco ; Vasari's House, Florence
Giorgio Vasari 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) 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, and the basis for biographies of several Renaissance artists, including Leonardo da Vinci. Vasari designed the Tomb of Michelangelo in the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence that was completed in 1578. Based on Vasari's text in print about Giotto's new manner of painting as a rinascita (rebirth), author Jules Michelet in his Histoire de France (1835) suggested adoption of Vasari's concept, using the term Renaissance (rebirth, in French) to distinguish the cultural change. The term was adopted thereafter in historiography and still is in use today.
Giorgio Vasari, who was born in Arezzo, spent the last years of his life in Florence in a house near the church of Santa Croce. Of his former home still remains the big hall called Sala Grande, fully frescoed by Vasari himself and his pupils. The frescoes are seen as a masterpiece of the Mannerism.
Today’s restoration allows visitors to rediscover a place of great beauty and extraordinary charm as it was conceived over four centuries ago.
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