Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a painter, an architect, an historian and an essential figure of the early Renaissance. His name is linked to the design of the building which today houses the Uffizi Gallery, to the Salone dei Cinqucento in Palazzo Vecchio, to the biographies dedicated to the "lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects".
To follow in the footsteps of Giorgio Vasari we should start the journey from Arezzo, his birthplace. Hereyou can visit the Casa Vasari Museum, the building he purchased in 1511 and then restored and decorated with frescoes between 1542 and 1548, with the help of his students. The visit allows to admire one of the few preserved examples of a late Renaissance artist's house as well as around fifty paintings from the sixteenth century.
Many Vasari's paintings are scattered all around Arezzo, like the Deposition from the Cross in the Church of SS. Annunziata, Madonna with Child and Saint John the Baptist at the Museum of Medieval and Modern Art, the Crowning of the Virgin in the Church of Saints Flora and Lucilla and others in the Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art.
