Vasari

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

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

noun

Gior·gio

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

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Examples from the Web for vasari

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
I will now read to you what Vasari first says of him, and it.
Val d'Arno|John Ruskin
Meanwhile, what Vasari says is valuable only as a witness to the fame of Niccola Pisano.
Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3|John Addington Symonds

Benedetto is not mentioned by Vasari, who is apt to omit the names of all artists whom he accounted of inferior worth.
The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 3 (of 6)|Luigi Antonio Lanzi
The bare facts of this poem are taken from Vasari's Lives of the Painters.
Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning|Robert Browning
Vasari's bias against the Umbrian master is too marked for any of his attacks to be accepted without corroboration.
A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools|Various

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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