Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari (, also US: , Italian: [ˈdʒordʒo vaˈzaːri]; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect, who is best known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of all 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. Giorgio 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 1,206,509 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Giorgio Vasari is the 74th most popular writer (up from 78th in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Italy (down from 71st 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.