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: (100)
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Giorgio Vasari Sheet of Drawings, after Giorgio Vasari Etching in brown ink 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 Figure Composition Pen and brown ink , brown and red washes on laid paper mounted to heavier sheet 16th century
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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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Gaspar ab Avibus (Osella) Venus and the Rose, after the engraving by Giorgio Ghisi after Luca Penni Engraving 1564
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Giorgio de Chirico Piazza d'Italia oil on burlap canvas 1915
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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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Portrait of a Man, 1521 Tommaso Fiorentino (Tommaso di Stefano Lunetti) (Italian, Florentine, born about
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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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Caricature of a Man with Bushy Hair
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Taddeo Decorating Facade
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Giorgio de Chirico Gli Archeologi IV (The Archaeologists IV), from the series Metamorphosis Color lithograph 1929
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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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Joseph Mallord William Turner - View of Venice: The Ducal Palace, Dogana, and Part of San Giorgio 1841 oil on canvas Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College English
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Domenico Beceri Conversion of St. Paul Pen and brown ink, brown wash and traces of black chalk on laid paper onlaid to false margins 16th century
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Cornelis Cort Descent of the Holy Ghost Engraving 16th century
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Giorgio de Chirico Il Ritorno del Figliuol Prodigo I (The Return of the Prodigal Son I), from the series Metamorphosis Color lithograph 1929
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Multiple Artists Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects (London: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society, 1912-1914), vol. 7 (1914) book with reproductions (some color) 1914
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Multiple Artists Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects (London: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society, 1912-1915), vol. 9 (1915) book with reproductions (some color) 1915
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Multiple Artists Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects (London: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society, 1912-1915), vol. 10 (1915) book with reproductions (some color) 1915
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Jacopo Zucchi (Jacopo del Zucca) Torture of a Saint with Hot Oil Pen and brown ink and wash with graphite on laid paper mounted to heavier sheet 16th century
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Multiple Artists Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects (London: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society, 1912-1915), vol. 8 (1914) book with reproductions (some color) 1914
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Multiple Artists Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects (London: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society, 1912-1914), vol. 5 (1913) book with reproductions (some color) 1913
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Multiple Artists Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects (London: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society, 1912-1914), vol. 4 (1913) book with reproductions (some color) 1913
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Gaspar ab Avibus (Osella) Allegory of the Hunt, after the engraving by Giorgio Ghisi from a design by Luca Penni Engraving 1563
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Artist: Giorgio Ghisi Title: Allegory of Life, or The Dream of Raphael, or Melancholy of
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The Nativity, late 1480s Jacopo del Sellaio (Italian, Florentine, 1441-42–1493)Tempera and gold on wood; Arched
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Jacopo Zucchi (Jacopo del Zucca) Torture of a Saint with Hooks Pen and brown ink and wash with graphite on laid paper mounted to heavier sheet 16th century
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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 P
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Giorgio Ghisi Venus and Vulcan Seated on a Bed engraving ca. 1555
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Taddeo Returning Home
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Robert Hinshelwood San Giorgio, Venice Engraving 19th century
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Taddeo Returns to Rome
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Giorgio Ghisi Apollo and the Muse engraving circa 1557
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The Adoration of the Shepherds, ca. 1500 Francesco MarmittaTempera and gold leaf on parchment; 244
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Dress, spring/summer 1971 Designed by Giorgio di Sant"Angelo (American, born Italy, 1933 - 1989)American; Made
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Giorgio Ghisi Three Muses and a Putto with Cymbals, after Primaticcio Engraving 1560 - 1570
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Giorgio Ghisi Venus and Adonis, after Teodoro Ghisi Engraving circa 1570
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Giorgio Ghisi Venus and the Rose, after Luca Penni Engraving 1556
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Giorgio Ghisi The Calumny of Apelles, after Luca Penni Engraving 1560
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Giorgio Ghisi Hercules, Bacchus, Pan and Another God, after Primaticcio Engraving 1560 - 1570
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Giorgio Ghisi Angelica and Medoro, after Teodoro Ghisi Engraving circa 1570
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Giorgio Ghisi The Prison, after Giulio Romano Engraving 16th century
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Giorgio Ghisi Thetis, after Perino del Vaga Engraving 16th century
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Giorgio Ghisi The Prison Engraving 16th century
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Giorgio Ghisi The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine, after Primaticcio Engraving 1550 - 1560
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Goddess of Chaste Love, fragment of a cassone panel, 1468-75 Francesco di Giorgio (Francesco Maurizio
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David with the Head of Goliath
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Giorgio Ghisi Venus and Adonis, after Teodoro Ghisi Engraving circa 1570
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Giorgio Ghisi The Vision of Ezekiel, after Giovanni Battista Bertani Engraving 1554
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Giorgio Ghisi Caius Marius in Prison, after Polidoro da Caravaggio Engraving 1560 - 1570
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Philippe Thomassin Gloria St. Maria ENG 16th - 17th century
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Giorgio Ghisi Thetis Seated with a Triton, after Perino del Vaga Engraving 16th century
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Carl Thiemann San Giorgio, Venice color woodcut 20th century
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Giorgio Ghisi Venus and Vulcan at the Forge, after Perino del Vaga Engraving 1550 - 1560
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Giorgio Ghisi Venus and Vulcan at the Forge, after Perino del Vaga Engraving 1550 - 1560
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Giorgio Morandi Paesaggio. Grizzana. Etching 1931
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Giorgio Morandi Still Life graphite on off-white wove paper 1953
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Giorgio Ghisi The Death of Procris, after a drawing by Giulio Romano Engraving circa 1540
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Giorgio Ghisi Allegory of the Hunt, after a design by Luca Penni Engraving 1556
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Giorgio Ghisi The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, after the painting by Giulio Campi in S. Paolo, Milan. Engraving 1578
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Giorgio Sommer Fountain, Italy albumen print circa 1870
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Giorgio Ghisi The Mocking of the Prisoners, after Giulio Romano Engraving circa 1540
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Giorgio Ghisi Portrait of Michelangelo, after a copy by Marcello Venusti of a painting by Jacopino del Conte Engraving circa 1564
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Giovanni Battista Naldini Recto: St. Matthew and the Angel~Verso: Pieta r:Pen and brown ink and brown wash over red chalkwith black chalk on laid paperv: Black chalk with traces of red chalk 16th century
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Taddeo Drawing after Antique
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Joseph Nash Church of San Giorgio dei Greci Lithograph 1843
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The Man of Sorrows with Two Angels, lunette, ca. 1470 Workshop of Francesco di Giorgio
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Giorgio Sommer Untitled [View of Rome] albumen print circa 1880
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Giorgio Ghisi The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine, after a painting by Correggio in the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples Engraving circa 1575
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Study for an Equestrian Monument, ca. 1482-1483 Antonio Pollaiuolo (Italian [Florence], 1431-32–1498)Pen and brown ink,
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Giorgio Ghisi The Delphic Sibyl, from a series of six prints after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Engraving 19th century
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Giorgio Ghisi The Persian Sibyl, from a series of six prints after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Engraving 19th century
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Giorgio Morandi Gruppo di Zinnie (Group of Zinnias) Etching 1931
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Giorgio Ghisi Cupid and Psyche, after the fresco by Giulio Romano in the Sala di Psyche, Palazzo del Te, Mantua Engraving 1573 - 1574
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Giorgio Ghisi The Eritrean Sibyl, title page from a series of six prints after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Engraving 1570 - 1580
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Giorgio Ghisi Allegory of Birth , after Giulio Romano's design for the fresco decoration of the Loggia della Grotta in the Palazzo Te, Mantua Engraving 1558
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Giorgio Ghisi The Prophet Joel, from a series of six prints after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Engraving 17th century
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Giorgio Ghisi The Delphic Sibyl, from a series of six prints after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Engraving 17th century
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Giorgio Ghisi The Persian Sibyl, from a series of six prints after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Engraving 17th century
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Giorgio Ghisi The Prophet Jeremiah, from a series of six prints after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Engraving 17th century
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George Percival Gaskell Venice: Riva degli Schiavoni and S. Giorgio Maggiore aquatint 19th - 20th century
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Female Figure
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Giorgio Ghisi The Prophet Ezekiel, from a series of six prints after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Engraving early 17th century
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Madonna and Child with Saints, altarpiece, ca. 1520 Girolamo dai Libri (Italian, Veronese, 1474-1555)Tempera and
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Giorgio Sommer Soldiers' Quarters, Pompeii Albumen print 19th century
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Giorgio Ghisi The Eritrean Sibyl, title page from a series of six prints after Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling Engraving 17th century
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Giorgio Morandi Natura Morte con la Tazzina Bianca a Sinistra (Still Life with the White Cup at the Left) Etching 1930
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Vita di Michelagnolo Buonarroti raccolta per Ascanio Condivi da la Ripa Transone, 1553 Author: Ascanio
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Giorgio de Chirico - The Duo 1914-1915 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Auguste Boulard (Fils) San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice (After Francesco Guardi) etching 19th - 20th century
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Giorgio Sommer 1206 Tempio di Mercurio, Pompei Albumen print 19th century

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National Museum: Renaissance Drawings from Florence
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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
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