Vasari

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An Italian painter and architect best known for writing books about artists from the Renaissance

proper noun

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As early as 1550, Giorgio Vasari coined the term "Rinascit," later used to refer to this era.
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Examples

Now, a great deal of what we know about these artists comes from the work of a great Italian historian called Giorgio Vasari.

Chromophobia (2006)
In the Palazzo's Hall of Five Hundred, there's a famous mural: Giorgio Vasari's Battle of Marciano.

Inferno (2016)
According to Vasari, Bonsignori's patron was dissatisfied with his rendering of Saint Sebastian's martyrdom.

Academic text (2015)
Many artists we admire today were first introduced to us through the writings of Vasari.
The detailed biographies of famous painters in his book greatly influenced how we view Renaissance art and artists, thanks to Vasari.
His admiration for the genius of Michelangelo can be seen in the descriptions written by Vasari.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Vasari is an Italian family name best known because of the painter and writer Giorgio Vasari, who lived in the 1500s and wrote biographies of many Renaissance artists. So the name Vasari usually refers to that famous artist and his important book about other artists.