Vasari

[ vuh-zahr-ee, -sahr-ee; Italian vah-zah-ree ]

noun

1. Gior·gio [jawr, -jaw], 1511–74, Italian painter, architect, and art historian.

Vasari

/ vəˈsɑːrɪ; vaˈzaːri /

noun

1. VasariGiorgio15111574MItalianARCHITECTURE: architectARTS AND CRAFTS: painterHISTORY: historian 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

Example Sentences

Vasari was a painter, architect, and friend of Michelangelo.

From The Daily Beast

Vasari, as Hall recounts, rarely mentions individual drawings when recounting the lives of the great artists.

From The Daily Beast

But again this work too seems, in spite of Vasari, to belong rather uncertainly to Donatello.

From Project Gutenberg

Nanni di Banco, Vasari tells us, was a man who "inherited a competent patrimony, and one by no means of inferior condition."

From Project Gutenberg

Vasari, who as a biographer has been very useful to makers of books on art, was also born at Arezzo in 1512.

From Project Gutenberg

Vasari, George, claims the invention of chiaro-scuro engraving for Ugo da Cai, 230.

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The list of good artists and bad artists who have been masters of words, from Vasari and earlier onwards, is long.

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