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  1. 1511-1574. Italian art historian, architect,
  2. and painter, author of Lives of the Most
  3. Excellent Architects, Painters and Sculptors
  4. 1550 (enlarged and revised 1568), in which he
  5. proposed the theory of a Renaissance of the
  6. arts beginning with Giotto and culminating
  7. with Michelangelo. He designed the Uffizi
  8. Palace, Florence. Vasari was a prolific
  9. Mannerist painter. His basic view of art
  10. history has remained unchallenged, despite
  11. his prejudices and his delight in often
  12. ill-founded, libellous anecdotes.
  13.