Vasari

Giorgio Vasari is one of the most important figures of the Italian Renaissance.He lived during a time where art was at its best and he saw some of the most amazing artworks that we admire and he knew the artists and became familiar with them and their work. Undoubtedly he gave the proper attribution to all their expertise and skill as he wrote "The Lives of the Artists," which he categorically organized the artists and their  art as the world should see them: as master creators and their masterpieces. He knew many of these artists on a personal level and some he heard of. he was also a divine creator himself he helped remodel many of the churches of Florence like the Santa Maria Novela or the Santa Croce. However he decided to start writing about the growing prosperity of art that surrounded him. He believed that true artists were not learned in a classroom by technical books but by patient training and the teachings of masters, one could subtly become an artificer. He developed a three stage theory on the art of Renaissance time period. In his "Lives" he exemplifies how each artist is his own creative genius and he reveals each of their personalities. Giorgio Vasari describes an artist as having a sort of "grace" that is unlike any other that can be obtained by the "technical knowledge" of the artist. Giorgio Vasari should be considered a great artist himself for allowing his expertise of art to succeed so many centuries for all to understand and appreciate. To me, i now consider him one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance even though technically his life was shortly after. If not for Vasari we would be without a great chunk of Renaissance history and we would not be able to understand these artists to a great extent. So Salute a Giorgio!