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Giorgio Vasari
Italian painter, architect, writer and historian (1511-1574)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 30 July 1511
- Died
- 27 June 1574
- Place of birth
- Arezzo
- Place of death
- Florence
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Giorgio
- Family name
- Vasari
- Father
- Antonio Vasari
- Mother
- Maddalena Tacci
- Spouse
- Niccolosa Bacci
- Movement
- Renaissance
- Field of work
- Renaissance painting, architecture, painting, art history, art theory, biographistics
- Occupation
- painter, architect, art historian, writer, biographer, art theorist, aesthetician, architectural drafter, visual artist, theatre designer
- Position held
- court painter
- Citizenship
- Republic of Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
- Awards
- Order of the Golden Spur
- archives at
- TIB special collections
- artist files at
- Frick Art Research Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- attested in
- Mare Magnum. Etruria (vol. 95), Mare Magnum (vol. 82)
- birth name
- Giorgio II Vasari
- depicted by
- Portrait of Giorgio Vasari, Monument to Giorgio Vasari
- described by source
- Teutsche Academie der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Schilder-boeck, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Otto's encyclopedia, BEIC Digital Library, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Q107389658, Library of the World's Best Literature, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- end of work period
- 1574
- has works in the collection
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museo del Prado, National Gallery of Art, Nationalmuseum, Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, National Gallery of Canada, Palazzo Vecchio, Victoria and Albert Museum, National Museum of San Matteo
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Italian
- member of
- Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
- name in native language
- Giorgio Vasari
- notable work
- Uffizi Gallery, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Allegory of Patience, Annunciation to Zacharias, Feast of Esther, Gathering of the Manna, Murate Last Supper, Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds, Graffiti in the facade of Palazzo Ramirez de Montalvo, Hall of Cosimo il Vecchio, Stanza di comodo, Sala Altoviti
- relative
- Luca Signorelli
- start of work period
- 1527
- student of
- Guillaume de Marcillat
- topic has template
- Template:Giorgio Vasari
- topic's main category
- Category:Giorgio Vasari
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
- Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori
- Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, sculptors and architects
- Vies des peintres, sculpteurs et architectes
- Vies des peintres, sculpteurs et architectes
- Serie degli uomini i più illustri nella pittura, scultura, e architettura
- Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori (1568)
- Vasari's "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, etc" in Deutsch
- Le vite dei più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architetti riscritte da Giancarlo Dal Pozzo con l'aggiunta delle figure delle principali opere loro
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