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Excerpt from The Life of Giorgio Vasari: A Study of the Later Renaissance in Italy
Vasari may be considered as the most prominent artist of this period of decadence. Both architect and painter, heliyed in jobs; midst of courts; he conversed with Alessandro, Cosimo and Francesco de' Medici; and was as familiar as commoner clay might be with the Popes from Clement VII to Gregory XIII. He knew all the great painters who were slowly passing away around him, and the notices of them in the Lives are largely supplied from his own eye-witness. More than two hundred and sixty of his letters have already been published and a great many more have recently been discovered, though they are not as yet available for the purposes of this work. In addition to this we have the Auto biography, together with a number of his poems, so that there is ample material for the present work.
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