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Giorgio Vasari

1511 - 1574

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Giorgio Vasari (, US also ; Italian: [ˈdʒordʒo vaˈzaːri]; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer who is best known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of Western art-historical writing, and still much cited in modern biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, although he is now regarded as including many factual errors, especially when covering artists from before he was born. Vasari was a Mannerist painter who was highly regarded both as a painter and architect in his day but rather less so in later centuries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giorgio Vasari has received more than 1,308,161 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia. Giorgio Vasari is the 88th most popular writer (down from 74th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Italy (down from 76th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Writer.

Giorgio Vasari is most famous for being an Italian painter, architect, and writer. He is best known for his book "The Lives of the Artists" which was published in 1550.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Giorgio Vasari ranks 88 out of 7,302. Before him are François Rabelais, Miyamoto Musashi, Isaac Asimov, Daniel Defoe, Knut Hamsun, and Pablo Neruda. After him are José Saramago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Henry David Thoreau, Jack London, Toni Morrison, and Erich Maria Remarque.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1511, Giorgio Vasari ranks 1. After him are Francisco de Orellana, Henry, Duke of Cornwall, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, Ippolito de' Medici, Erasmus Reinhold, Juan Pizarro, Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Francisco López de Gómara, Nicola Vicentino, and Pierre Viret. Among people deceased in 1574, Giorgio Vasari ranks 2. Before him is Selim II. After him are Charles IX of France, Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Bartolomeo Eustachi, Renée of France, Maarten van Heemskerck, Ebussuud Efendi, Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry, Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine, and Marie of Cleves, Princess of Condé.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giorgio Vasari ranks 81 out of 5,161. Before him are Zeno of Elea (-490), Mark Antony (-83), Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (-600), Giotto (1267), Ennio Morricone (1928), and Catherine de' Medici (1519). After him are Pope Pius V (1504), Pope Pius XI (1857), Benedict of Nursia (480), Michael Collins (1930), Pope Gregory XIII (1502), and Pope Sylvester I (300).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Giorgio Vasari ranks 9. Before him are Petrarch (1304), Ovid (-43), Giovanni Boccaccio (1313), Horace (-65), Giacomo Casanova (1725), and Umberto Eco (1932). After him are Guillaume Apollinaire (1880), Plautus (-254), Cato the Elder (-243), Carlo Collodi (1826), Catullus (-84), and Pliny the Younger (61).

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