Princeton University Press Giorgio Vasari – Architect & Courtier: Architect and Courtier

Well-known for his paintings and his book "The Lives of the Artists", Giorgio Vasari also served as court architect to Grand Duke Cosimo I de'Medici, contributing to such symbolic buildings as the Uffizi in Florence. This is a survey of Vasari's architecture. By focusing on the architect's service to his distinguished patrons and his collaboration with other architects, it reveals how Vasari combined design, political meaning and a clear sense of history to create buildings so appealing to modern students of architecture. In addition to the Uffizi, chapters are devoted to Vasari's Del Monte projects in Monte San Savino and Rome, the Corridoio and the renovation of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, religious architecture throughout Tuscany, and urban projects in Pisa and Arezzo.