Vasari
Gior·gio [jawr-jaw], /ˈdʒɔr dʒɔ/, 1511–74, Italian painter, architect, and art historian.
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Vasari was a painter, architect, and friend of Michelangelo.
Vasari, as Hall recounts, rarely mentions individual drawings when recounting the lives of the great artists.
But again this work too seems, in spite of Vasari, to belong rather uncertainly to Donatello.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa | Edward HuttonNanni di Banco, Vasari tells us, was a man who "inherited a competent patrimony, and one by no means of inferior condition."
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa | Edward HuttonVasari, who as a biographer has been very useful to makers of books on art, was also born at Arezzo in 1512.
Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car | Francis Miltoun
Vasari, George, claims the invention of chiaro-scuro engraving for Ugo da Cai, 230.
A Treatise on Wood Engraving | John JacksonThe list of good artists and bad artists who have been masters of words, from Vasari and earlier onwards, is long.
Impressions And Comments | Havelock Ellis
British Dictionary definitions for Vasari
/ (vəˈsɑːrɪ, Italian vaˈzaːri) /
Giorgio (ˈdʒordʒo). 1511–74, Italian architect, painter, and art historian, noted for his Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors (1550; 1568), a principal source for the history of Italian Renaissance art
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