Let's start a short serie dedicated to all interesting people that played a role in the Leonardo's life.Giorgio Vasari, an italian painter, architect and writer, was born in 1511, two years after Leonardo was died.
He was from Arezzo, a nice town in Tuscany. He's considered to be the founder of art-historical writing. His masterpiece, Le Vite dei più eccellenti pittori, scultori ed architettori, was first published in 1550, and it was commissioned by Cosimo De Medici, the Grand Duke of Florence.
That book became a best seller. It contained descriptions of technical methods in the arts, and biographies of talented artists. Leonardo was one of them.
The work, mainly based on the truth, also contained anectodes and gossip about artists life. A famous legend was the one in which Leonardo died in the arms of king of France, Francesco I. This fact was not proved, and it's still a legend.
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