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Giorgio Vasari

1511 - 1574

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Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer who is best 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 biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, although he is now regarded as including many factual errors, especially when covering artists from before he was born. Vasari was a Mannerist painter who was highly regarded both as a painter and architect in his day but rather less so in later centuries. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giorgio Vasari is the 92nd most popular writer (down from 88th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Italy (down from 81st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Writer.

Giorgio Vasari is most famous for being an Italian painter, architect, and writer. He is best known for his book "The Lives of the Artists" which was published in 1550.

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Among writers, Giorgio Vasari ranks 92 out of 7,302. Before him are Maxim Gorky, Du Fu, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Kurt Vonnegut. After him are Milan Kundera, Heinrich Heine, Louisa May Alcott, Erich Maria Remarque, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Isaac Asimov.

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Among people born in 1511, Giorgio Vasari ranks 1. After him are Francisco de Orellana, Henry, Duke of Cornwall, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, Ippolito de' Medici, Erasmus Reinhold, Francisco López de Gómara, Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Nicola Vicentino, Juan Pizarro, and Pierre Viret. Among people deceased in 1574, Giorgio Vasari ranks 2. Before him is Selim II. After him are Charles IX of France, Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Renée of France, Bartolomeo Eustachi, Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry, Maarten van Heemskerck, Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine, Marie of Cleves, Princess of Condé, and Ebussuud Efendi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giorgio Vasari ranks 128 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Clement XI (1649), Pope Clement XIII (1693), Masaccio (1401), Pope Clement XIV (1705), Lucrezia Borgia (1480), and Pope Sixtus IV (1414). After him are Pope Innocent VIII (1432), Marie de' Medici (1575), Pope Alexander VIII (1610), Pope Innocent XII (1615), Pope Julius III (1487), and Tintoretto (1518).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Giorgio Vasari ranks 9. Before him are Ovid (-43), Petrarch (1304), Giovanni Boccaccio (1313), Horace (-65), Umberto Eco (1932), and Giacomo Casanova (1725). After him are Cato the Elder (-243), Carlo Collodi (1826), Plautus (-254), Guillaume Apollinaire (1880), Catullus (-84), and Carlo Goldoni (1707).

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