Vasari
Americannoun
noun
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In his description of Giotto’s naturalistic painting of the 14th century, Vasari hailed a “rebirth” of the arts, beginning then and carrying into the age of his own Medici patrons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
Vasari, who is regarded as the first art historian, was born in the central region of Tuscany, where he served the Italian banking family and political dynasty the Medici, in Florence.
From Reuters ● Jun. 29, 2023
It was instantly hailed as a masterpiece, with Renaissance artist Giorgio Vasari saying the David "surpassed" any statue that had ever existed before.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2023
His friend and biographer Giorgio Vasari wrote the marble block was flawed and full of impurities and that “the chisel often struck sparks from it.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
Neither Condivi nor Vasari, Michelangelo’s biographers who knew him personally mention the master carving this little angel; they mention only the angel carved for the altar in Siena.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
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