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# Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, architect and writer whose Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, published in 1550 and expanded in 1568, is the founding text of art history and the earliest account of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael.

**Painter, architect and biographer**

## Books

- [The Lives of the Artists](/book/the-lives-of-the-artists)