biography
pronunciation:
[vazahree]
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1511–74)
|
| biography:
| Art historian, born in Arezzo, NC Italy. He studied under Andrea del Sarto, and lived mostly at Florence and Rome. He was an architect and painter, best known for his design of the Uffizi in Florence, but today his fame rests on The Lives of the Most Eminent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors (1550, trans title), which remains the major source of information on its subject. |
|
|
