Famous People with Name Giorgio

Giorgio Vasari            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Giorgio Vasari: was an Italian painter and architect, who is today famous for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.In 1529 he visited Rome and studied the works of Raphael and others of the Roman High Renaissance. Vasari's own Mannerist paintings were more admired in his lifetime than afterwards. He was consistently employed by patrons in the Medici family in Florence and Rome, and he worked in Naples, Arezzo and other places. Many of his pictures still exist, the most important being the wall and ceiling paintings in the great Sala di Cosimo I of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, where he and his assistants were at work from 1555, and his uncompleted frescoes inside the vast cupola of the Duomo, completed by Federico Zuccari and with the help of Giovanni Balducci. He also helped organize the decoration of the Studiolo, now reassembled in the Palazzo Vecchio.

Giorgio Agamben            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Giorgio Agamben: is an Italian philosopher who teaches at the Università IUAV di Venezia. He also teaches at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and previously taught at the University of Macerata an

Giorgio Napolitano            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Giorgio Napolitano: is an Italian politician and former lifetime senator, the eleventh and current President of the Italian Republic. His election took place on May 10, 2006, and his term started with the swearing-in ceremony held on May 15.

Giorgio De Chirico            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Giorgio De Chirico: was an influential pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Greek-Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement. His name (pronounced "JOHR-joh day KEE-ree-koh", IPA: /'d??r.d?o

Giorgio Morandi            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Giorgio Morandi: was an Italian painter who specialized in still life.Morandi was born in Bologna, Italy. In 1907 he went to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti. The works of his formative years show him experimenting with a style related to Cézanne and to Cubism, with a