ABSTRACT
Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) was one of the most important cultural figures in Italy in the mid-sixteenth century. He is an exemplary of Castiglione's “Renaissance Man”. Vasari achieves prominence as an art critic, historian, aesthetician, painter and, in particular, an architect. His accomplishments in all these capacities have been the subject of extensive study for some time (Cheney 2007: 1–33; 2006: 187).
