Vasari

[ vuh-zahr-ee, -sahr-ee; Italian vah-zah-ree ]

noun

1. Gior·gio [jawr, -jaw], 1511–74, Italian painter, architect, and art historian.

Vasari

/ vaˈzaːri; vəˈsɑːrɪ /

noun

1. VasariGiorgio15111574MItalianARCHITECTURE: architectARTS AND CRAFTS: painterHISTORY: historian Giorgio (ˈdʒordʒo). 1511–74, Italian architect, painter, and art historian, noted for his Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors (1550; 1568), a principal source for the history of Italian Renaissance art

Example Sentences

Vasari, who is regarded as the first art historian, was born in the central region of Tuscany, where he served the Italian banking family and political dynasty the Medici, in Florence.

From Reuters

It was instantly hailed as a masterpiece, with Renaissance artist Giorgio Vasari saying the David "surpassed" any statue that had ever existed before.

From BBC

Sitting with those magazines, it was as if he were studying the chess equivalent of Plutarch’s lives of the Roman generals or Vasari’s lives of the artists.

From Literature

Johann Joachim Winckelmann, arguably the most influential art historian since the Renaissance’s own Giorgio Vasari, popularized the notion of whiteness in ancient marble sculptures in 1764 through two volumes on the topic.

From New York Times

Raphael “continued to divert himself beyond measure with the pleasures of love,” wrote Vasari.

From New York Times