Giorgio Vasari

1511–1574 · Mannerism

Giorgio Vasari was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer 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 since regarded as including many factual errors, especially when covering artists from before he was born.

40 paintings

• The Temptation of Saint Jerome (1541–48)
• Foundation of Florentia, a Roman settlement
• Allegory of Romagna (1660)
• Allegorie von Pescia
• Allegory of Fiesole
• Pieta (1550)
• The Temptation of Saint Jerome (1544)
• Holy Family with Saint Francis in a Landscape (1542)
• Six Tuscan Poets (1544)
• Judith and Holofernes (1554)
• Capture of Porto Ercole (1569)
• Lorenzo the Magnificent receives the tribute of the ambassadors (1556)
• Piero de' Medici called the Gouty (1556)
• The battle of Marciano in Val di Chiana (1570)
• Allegory of Arezzo; to the bottom, view of Florence (1557)
• Allegory of Borgo San Sepolcro; to the bottom, view of Scarperia (1557)
• Allegory of Cortona; to the bottom, view of Montecarlo (1557)
• Allegory of Pisa; to the bottom, view of Siena (1557)
• Allegory of Pistoia; to the bottom, view of Piombino (1557)
• Allegory of Prato; to the bottom, view of Livorno (1557)
• Allegory of Volterra; to the bottom, view of Lucignano (1556)
• Don Giovanni and Don Garzia de' Medici (1556)
• The birth of Venus (1555)
• The emperor Massimiliano lifts the siege from Livorno (1569)
• The first fruits from earth offered to Saturn (1555)
• The rout of the Pisans at Torre San Vincenzo (1550)
• The storming of the fortress of Stampace in Pisa (1569)
• The storming of the fortress near Porta Camollia in Siena (1570)
• Volcano's forge (1555)
• Allegory of justice and truth (1543)
• Crucifixion (1545)
• Apostles Peter and John Blessing the People of Samaria (1557)
• Heilige Familie (1544)
• Annunciation (1567)
• Saint Mark (1570-1571)
• Saint Luke (1570-1571)
• Portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici (1533)
• The Forge of Vulcan (1567)
• Portrait of Alessandro de' Medici (1534)
• The Prophet Elisha (1566)