Vasari’s life is intimately rooted in the Uffizi Gallery. With five of his paintings in various rooms throughout the museum, he also chronicled the lives the Renaissance artists that fill the Gallery, but even more importantly, he laid the original architectural design for the Palazzo degli Uffizi.
An acclaimed artist and architect of his time, Vasari is perhaps better known today for his invaluable tome of biographies, Le Vita delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori (Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects) or simply the Vite or Lives of Artists. The book, dedicated to his friend and patron, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519-1574), chronicles the evolution of Italy’s Renaissance through the greatest artists of the period.
Giorgio Vasari Allegory of Romagna
