Italian painter, architect, and art historian — author of The Lives — architect of the Uffizi Gallery — Michelangelo's friend — who created art history as a discipline through his biographies of Renaissance artists.
Creates art history as a discipline — Vasari's Lives (and his personal knowledge of Michelangelo, Raphael's circle, and Leonardo's pupils) is the primary source for Renaissance artistic biography; his organizational framework (rebirth-growth-perfection in Michelangelo) established the teleological narrative that dominated art history for 400 years.
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