Giorgio Vasari
Noun
Meaning
Italian painter and art historian (1511-1574)
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Agnolo Bronzino and Giorgio Vasari exemplify this strain of Maniera that lasted from about 1530 to 1580.
Giorgio Vasari in his book Lives of the Artists wrote that Uccello was obsessed by his interest in perspective and would stay up all night in his study trying to grasp the exact vanishing point.
Giorgio Vasari coined the term "Gothic" in an effort to describe, particularly architecture, that he found objectionable, supposedly saying "it is as if the Goths built it".
Giorgio Vasari (1511–74) is the great originator of the artistic canon, and the originator of many of the concepts it embodies.
He coins comic names "that make him even more bourgeois than he really is: Cotonnet, Bombet, Chamier." citation : 80 He uses many ridiculous names: "Don phlegm", " Giorgio Vasari ", "William Crocodile", "Poverino", "Baron de Cutendre".
Page 40. It was rebuilt in 1345. citation Giorgio Vasari recorded the traditional view of his day that attributed its design to Taddeo Gaddi — besides Giotto one of the few artistic names of the trecento still recalled two hundred years later.