Giorgio (ˈdʒordʒo). 1511–74, Italian architect, painter, and art historian, noted for his Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors (1550; 1568), a principal source for the history of Italian Renaissance art
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ˈGiorgio (ˈdʒɔʀdʒɔ) 1511-74; It. architect, painter, & biographer of artists