Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari was born in 1511 in Arezzo, in Tuscany. As a boy he was sent to Florence, where he trained in the circle of Michelangelo and Andrea del Sarto and was supported by the Medici family. He became a successful painter, working in Florence, Rome and other cities, and an architect; he designed the Uffizi building in Florence, originally government offices, and the corridor connecting it to the Pitti Palace, now called the Vasari Corridor. He also painted the huge frescoes inside the dome of Florence Cathedral, completed by others after his death. His most lasting work is the Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, first published in 1550 and expanded in 1568. It gathers biographies of Italian artists from Cimabue and Giotto to his own time, ending with Michelangelo, and describes art as reaching its height in the Renaissance. Although not always accurate, the Lives is a main source of information about many artists, and it is often considered the first work of art history. He died in Florence in 1574.

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