Vasari

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

noun

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

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Contemporary Examples of vasari

Vasari was a painter, architect, and friend of Michelangelo.
Ross King’s Italian Renaissance Book Bag
Ross King
December 11, 2012
Vasari, as Hall recounts, rarely mentions individual drawings when recounting the lives of the great artists.
The Best of Brit Lit
Peter Stothard
July 9, 2010

Historical Examples of vasari

Vasari is continually praising his compatriots for painting "like the life."
Six Centuries of Painting
Randall Davies
Of the Sebastian, Vasari says very much the same as Reynolds.
Six Centuries of Painting
Randall Davies
The poet makes him learn of Lippi, not, as Vasari states, Lippi of him.
Introduction to Robert Browning
Hiram Corson
As used by Vasari, it may be taken to denote about 23 inches.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects
Giorgio Vasari
But neither Vasari nor Milanesi seem to reflect that there might have been two Lapi.
The Cathedral Builders
Leader Scott

British Dictionary definitions for vasari

Vasari

noun

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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