The exhibition “Vasari, the Uffizi Gallery and the Duke“, from June 14, 2011 until October 30, 2011 at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy was organized on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Giorgio Vasari.
Cosimo I de’ Medici, Duke of Florence, is perhaps best known today for the creation of the Uffizi Gallery. It was designed by Giorgio Vasari (1511 – 1574) an Italian painter, writer, historian and architect. As the first art historian, he initiated the genre of artistic biographies. In 1563, with the greatest artists of his age, he helped found the Florence Accademia del Disegno, the first art academy. It included lectures on anatomy and geometry. Thirty years later, its ideas were reestablished in Rome by the painter Federico Zuccaro as the Accademia di San Luca, which became the model for all future academies of art.
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