Vasari,Giorgio

Vasari,Giorgio
Va·sa·ri (və-zärʹē, -särʹē, vä-zäʹrē), Giorgio. 1511-1574.
Italian painter, architect, and art historian who wrote Lives of the Most Eminent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors (1550), a history of Renaissance art.

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