Vasari
[vuh-zahr-ee, -sahr-ee; Italian vah-zah-ree]
- Gior·gio [jawr-jaw] /ˈdʒɔr dʒɔ/, 1511–74, Italian painter, architect, and art historian.
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Contemporary Examples
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.
Historical Examples
Vasari is continually praising his compatriots for painting "like the life."
Six Centuries of PaintingRandall Davies
Of the Sebastian, Vasari says very much the same as Reynolds.
Six Centuries of PaintingRandall Davies
The poet makes him learn of Lippi, not, as Vasari states, Lippi of him.
Introduction to Robert BrowningHiram Corson
As used by Vasari, it may be taken to denote about 23 inches.
But neither Vasari nor Milanesi seem to reflect that there might have been two Lapi.
The Cathedral BuildersLeader Scott
Vasari
- 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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