Self-portrait
Giorgio Vasari(1511-1574)
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, architect and historian.
Often called "the first art historian", Vasari invented the genre of the encyclopedia of artistic biographies with his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing, first published in 1550. He was the first to use the term "Renaissance" in print, though an awareness of the ongoing "rebirth" in the arts had been in the air since the time of Alberti.
Vasari's own Mannerist paintings were more admired in his lifetime than afterwards. Aside from his career as a painter, Vasari was also successful as an architect. His loggia of the Palazzo degli Uffizi by the Arno opens up the vista at the far end of its long narrow courtyard.
Vasari enjoyed high repute during his lifetime and amassed a considerable fortune.
Often called "the first art historian", Vasari invented the genre of the encyclopedia of artistic biographies with his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing, first published in 1550. He was the first to use the term "Renaissance" in print, though an awareness of the ongoing "rebirth" in the arts had been in the air since the time of Alberti.
Vasari's own Mannerist paintings were more admired in his lifetime than afterwards. Aside from his career as a painter, Vasari was also successful as an architect. His loggia of the Palazzo degli Uffizi by the Arno opens up the vista at the far end of its long narrow courtyard.
Vasari enjoyed high repute during his lifetime and amassed a considerable fortune.
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