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Vasari’s greatest architectural work, it is now the home of one of the world’s most famous and important art galleries.
In gentle contrast to the austere Italian Gothic exterior of the Palazzo Vecchio by Arnolfo di Cambio (architect of the Duomo), Vasari added ornate stucco and frescoes to the first inner courtyard for a Medici wedding in the 1560s (the palazzo served briefly as a Medici residence until they moved across the river to the Palazzo Pitti).
All this has made art biographies, since Giorgio Vasari started writing them in the 16 th century, pretty good entertainment.
It was Giorgio Vasari, facile artist but first-rate chronicler of this cultural explosion, who allegedly dubbed it a rinascita, or rebirth, of the glories of Italy’s Greco-Roman past.
Vasari's account of Michelangelo's heroic labors in the Sistine Chapel has entered popular lore.