Vasari

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

/ vəˈzɑr i, -ˈsɑr i; Italian vɑˈzɑ ri /

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noun

Gior·gio

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

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How to use Vasari in a sentence

Vasari was a painter, architect, and friend of Michelangelo.
Ross King’s Italian Renaissance Book Bag|Ross King|December 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
But again this work too seems, in spite of Vasari, to belong rather uncertainly to Donatello.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa|Edward Hutton
Nanni 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 Hutton

Vasari, 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 Jackson
The 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

Vasari

/ (vəˈsɑːrɪ, Italian vaˈzaːri) /

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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