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Article: Vasari, Giorgio (1511–1574)
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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 eventually became a prolific painter and highly accomplished architect.
As an artist he is best known for his extensive historical and allegorical fresco decorations in the Palazzo Vecchio, made to celebrate the ruler of Florence, Duke Cosimo de' Medici. As an architect his most celebrated building is the Uffizi, the government "offices" built for his Medici patron.
Vasari's art and architecture are eclipsed, however, by his work as a writer. His monumental
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