Giorgio Vasari (, also US: , Italian: ['d?ord?o va'za?ri]; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer, and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.
He was also the first to use the term "Renaissance" in print.