Artist: Giorgio Vasari (1511 - 1574)
Nationality: Italian
Movement: Mannerism
Media: Painting,Architect
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Biography:
Giorgio Vasari studied in Florence, first for a short time under Michelangelo Buonarroti and then Andrea del Sarto. He traveled and worked throughout Italy, painting numerous ceilings, walls, altarpieces, and easel paintings. He was also a talented architect. Some of his work in this medium includes Florence’s Uffizi and the Medici’s business offices. In addition to Mannerist painting and architecture, Vasari also was a writer, first publishing “The Lives of the Most Eminent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors” in 1550. The book was translated into almost every language and remains the primary resource on the lives of early Italian Renaissance artists.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Giorgio Vasari, Sheet of Drawings, after Giorgio Vasari, 16th century
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Giorgio Vasari, Figure Composition, 16th century
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Studies of a Male Nude, Drapery, and a Hand
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Bearded Man Filling a Glass: Youth Running
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Giorgio Vasari - Head of an old man 16th century chalk on paper Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum Italian
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Giorgio Vasari - Six Tuscan Poets 1544 oil on panel Minneapolis Institute of Arts Italian
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Taddeo Leaving Home
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Giorgio Vasari - Holy Family with Saint Francis in a Landscape 1542 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Italian
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Giorgio Vasari - The Holy Family with the Infant, St. John the Baptist c. 1540 Oil on Panel The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens Italian
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), ca. 1540 Jacopino del Conte (Italian, Florentine, 1515-1598)Oil on wood; 34 3/4
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James McNeill Whistler - The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore c. 1880 chalk and pastel on Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Self-Portrait
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Giorgio Morandi, Still Life, 1953
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Joseph Pennell, San Giorgio, Venice, 1883
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Joseph Mallord William Turner - Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore 1834 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Giorgio de Chirico, Piazza d"Italia, 1915
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Giorgio Morandi, Paesaggio. Grizzana., 1931
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Giorgio Ghisi , The Prison, 16th century
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Giorgio Sommer, Fountain, Italy, circa 1870
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Portrait of a Man, 1521 Tommaso Fiorentino (Tommaso di Stefano Lunetti) (Italian, Florentine, born about
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Giorgio Ghisi , Apollo and the Muse, circa 1557
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Caricature of a Man with Bushy Hair
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Joseph Nash, Church of San Giorgio dei Greci, 1843
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The Nativity Francesco di Giorgio (Francesco Maurizio di Giorgio di Martino Pollaiuolo) (Italian, Sienese, 1439-1501)Tempera
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Robert Hinshelwood, San Giorgio, Venice, 19th century
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Carl Thiemann, San Giorgio, Venice, 20th century
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Taddeo Decorating Facade
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Giorgio Sommer, Untitled [View of Rome], circa 1880
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Giorgio Sommer, Soldiers" Quarters, Pompeii, 19th century
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Giorgio de Chirico, Gli Archeologi IV (The Archaeologists IV), from the series Metamorphosis, 1929
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Giorgio Morandi, Gruppo di Zinnie (Group of Zinnias), 1931
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Giorgio Ghisi , The Calumny of Apelles, after Luca Penni, 1560
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Giorgio Ghisi , Hercules, Bacchus, Pan and Another God, after Primaticcio, 1560 - 1570
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Giorgio Ghisi , Thetis, after Perino del Vaga, 16th century
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Giorgio Ghisi , Venus and the Rose, after Luca Penni, 1556
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Giorgio Ghisi , The Prison, after Giulio Romano, 16th century
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Giorgio Ghisi , Venus and Adonis, after Teodoro Ghisi, circa 1570
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Giorgio Ghisi , Venus and Vulcan Seated on a Bed, ca. 1555
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Canaletto - Capriccio: The Rialto Bridge and the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore c. 1750 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art Italian
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Giovanni Battista Mercati, A St. Giorgio doux pagatano j Soldati Romani (At S. Giorgio, Where They Paid the Roman Soldiers), pl. 30 from the series Alcune vedute et prospettive di luoghi dishabitati di Roma (Some Views and Perspectives of the Uninhabited

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National Museum: Renaissance Drawings from Florence
What was not noted at the time was that the entire collection had been compiled by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), whose monumental work, Lives of the Artists, serves as a basic source of knowledge about Renaissance art and was the foundation st...

Further Artwork and Information:

Giorgio Vasari Online
Florence Art Guide - Giorgio Vasari
Biography
Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists
VASARI, Giorgio
Giorgio Vasari The Lives of the Artists
Medieval Sourcebook: Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574): Lives of the Artists, selections
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Giorgio Vasari
Amazon.com: Books Search Results: Vasari,+Giorgio
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