Research topic:Giorgio Vasari

Pictures from Google Image Search

Click to see an enlarged picture
Click to see an enlarged picture
Click to see an enlarged picture
Click to see an enlarged picture
Find more facts and information on our topic page about Giorgio Vasari

Vasari, Giorgio

World Encyclopedia | 2005 | © World Encyclopedia 2005, originally published by Oxford University Press 2005. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Vasari, Giorgio (1511–74) Italian painter, architect, and biographer. Vasari's fame now rests on his history of Italian art, The Lives of the most excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550). This lively account is the single most important document of Italian Renaissance art. In architecture, he is noted for his design for the Uffizi.

Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

  • MLA
  • Chicago
  • APA

"Vasari, Giorgio." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 16 Nov. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

"Vasari, Giorgio." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (November 16, 2009). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-VasariGiorgio.html

"Vasari, Giorgio." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Retrieved November 16, 2009 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-VasariGiorgio.html

Learn more about citation styles

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Giorgio Vasari: Storico e critico.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Mario Pozzi and Enrico Mattioda. Giorgio Vasari: Storico e critico. Biblioteca...created it. In many scholarly works Vasari's overarching themes are ignored...misunderstood, or misrepresented. In Giorgio Vasari storico e critico, Mario Pozzi...
Giorgio Vasari: Art and History.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words ; Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Painters, Sculptors...advice of historians and litterati in Vasari's circle at the court of the granddukes...artists from the time of Giotto until Vasari's contemporaries. It is the foundation...
Books: Turning artists into heroes Martin Gayford reassesses the achievement of Giorgio Vasari, an unremarkable painter and architect but a revolutionary biographer
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 12/15/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari tr by Gaston de Vere Everyman...however, was the achievement of Giorgio Vasari and his book, The Lives of the...considerable extent the work of Giorgio Vasari - who ex pressed the growing self...
An exemplary humanist hybrid: Vasari's "Fraude" with reference to Bronzino's "Sphinx." (Giorgio Vasari and Agnolo di Cosimo a.k.a. Bronzino)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...fantasia) that caught the interest of Giorgio Vasari. It was, however, only referred to in passing by Vasari in a largely allegorizing description...of the Painters (Le Vite). Overall, Vasari's nearly contemporary appraisal makes...
The modern artist as historian, courtier, and saint: typology and art history from Vasari to Pound.(Ezra Pound, Giorgio Vasari)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: CLIO; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...is deemed the first text of art history: Giorgio Vasari's 1550 Lives of the Artists. (4) As Vasari's text adapts and secularizes medieval...consequently a new identity for the modern artist. Vasari is the first to see his age as a rinascita...
The homes of Giorgio Vasari.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 451 words ; 0820474940 The homes of Giorgio Vasari. Cheney, Liana. Peter Lang Publishing...own use. Focusing on the houses of Vasari in Arezzo and Florence, Cheney traces...and iconography and the relationship Vasari had with his homes over time. She...
Giorgio Vasari's teachers; sacred and profane art.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2007; 411 words ; 9780820488134 Giorgio Vasari's teachers; sacred and profane art. Cheney, Liana de Girolami...patrons had on the work of Florentine painter, architect, and writer Vasari (1511-74). Among the influences she finds are Dante's literary...
Crónica renacentista.(Las vidas de los más excelentes arquitectos, pintores y escultores italianos desde Cimabúe a nuestros tiempos, libro de Giorgio Vasari)(Artículo breve)
Magazine article from: Epoca; 12/30/2005; 452 words ; ...excelentes arquitectos, pintores y escultores italianos desde Cimabue a nuestros tiempos. Giorgio Vasari. Ctedraa. 285 pgs. El trabajo de Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) publicado en 1550 en Florencia es una de las mejores fuentes de informacin...
Vasari on Theatre. (Reviews).
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; Thomas A. Pallen. Vasari on Theatre Carbondale and Edwardsville...Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Giorgio Vasari describes a number of pageants and...biographies appear in his work. To make Vasari's references to theatrical practices...
Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...Pater's Renaissance). To date, Giorgio Vasari has been Barolsky's gravitational...Giotto's Father and the Family of Vasari's Lives. Published back to back...s approach makes it clear that Vasari's narrative range and literary...

Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses

Vasari, Giorgio (15111574)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World VASARI, GIORGIO (1511 – 1574) VASARI, GIORGIO (1511 – 1574), Italian biographer, painter, and architect. Born in the Tuscan town of Arezzo, Giorgio Vasari was brought in his early years to Florence, where he...
Giorgio Vasari
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (1511-1570) was an Italian painter, architect, and author of "The Lives of the Most Celebrated Painters, Sculptors, and Architects." His book is the foundation of modern art historiography and the prototype...
Vasari, Giorgio
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Vasari, Giorgio (1511–74). Italian painter...the painters being mentioned first.) Vasari wrote from a particular aesthetic viewpoint...Raphael , and above all Michelangelo , whom Vasari idolized and whose biography was the only...
Giorgio di Martini, Francesco di
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Giorgio di Martini, Francesco di (1439–...architectural career is not well documented. Vasari held him in high regard. Bibliography Croix...1972); Frampton & Turner (1993); Giorgio di Martini (1967); Heydenreich (1996...
Correggio (Antonio Allegri; 1489/941534)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...draftsman. In the sixteenth century, Giorgio Vasari hailed Antonio Allegri (called Correggio...which a mere fraction have survived. Vasari described Correggio as, literally...only to that of Raphael. See also Vasari, Giorgio . BIBLIOGR

Related research topics

Find thousands of answers for hundreds of subjects at Smart QandA .

All answers verified by trusted sources at Encyclopedia.com

Try Smart QandA now!

For students and teachers!

Encyclopedia.com provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including:

Encyclopedia.com provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including: