Why Is Marco Vasari Important During The Renaissance

Vasari and his role during the Florentine High Renaissance:

Girogio Vasari was born in Arezzo, Tuscany during the Renaissance in 1511. As a young man he showed a remarkable interest and talent for painting and soon became a student of the famous artist Guglielmo da Marsiglia. After his apprenticeship, he moved on to study more in Florence, which was home to many other prominent Renaissance artists before he moved on to study in Rome. It was in Rome that he was exposed to the works of his idols, Raphael and Michelangelo and it was also in Rome that he completed many of his major works while under the patronage of the Medici family back in Florence. Throughout his life he was back and forth between the two cities, and to this day all of his remaining works can be found in these locations.
The frescos were begun by him inside the vast cupola of the Duomo and were eventually completed by Federico Zuccari with the help of Giovanni Balducci. Although he was very well known for his paintings, he was more successful as an architect. He built the loggia of the Palazzo delgi Uffizi, which was the first such architectural structure in Italy of its kind. His own home in Arezzo was itself a magnificent structure and it is still around today as a museum to the artist, housing some of his paintings as well as parts of the original manuscripts to his biographical collections about Renaissance artists that would later form the whole of the