Giorgio Vasari

The painter, architect and art historian Giorgio Vasari was born in Arezzo in 1511 and died in Florence in 1574. He was linked to the models of Florentine late classicism and the great Roman masters, and developed an eclectic figurative culture, enriched by Venetian pictorial stimuli. As a painter he is represented by murals in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, begun in 1555, and his architectural works include the Uffizi Palace and the Loggia Vasariana. However, his greatest achievement was his book The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Architects, Artists, and Sculptors, first published in 1550 and revised and expanded in 1568.