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Giorgio Vasari

Italian painter and architect who wrote biographies of Renaissance artists

Did you know?He is widely credited with being the first person to use the term Renaissance in a printed work.

Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of Western art-historical writing, and still much cited in modern…

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