Tours / Tour of the home of Giorgio Vasari: the architect of the Vasari Corridor

Did you know that in Florence there is a privately owned Renaissance house, with frescoes by Giorgio Vasari, which has only been open to the general public for a limited number of years?

In the sixteenth century this house belonged to the great master Vasari and after the restoration of the frescoes it was decided to make it open for visits for a few years. All we have to do is take advantage of this very kind concession to be able to enjoy this work that the master painted for his own private use and which in a few years will return to the private use of the current owners.

Giorgio Vasari is a tireless artist who lived at the time of the mature Michelangelo and the Grand Duke Cosimo I of Tuscany.

Architect, painter, sculptor and author of the famous "Lives", he was therefore the biographer of the major representatives of the Tuscan Middle Ages and Renaissance.

He trained on the works of the master Michelangelo and like him he was therefore a versatile artist. Giorgio Vasari worked on the restyling of grand-ducal Florence in the mid-16th century, including the construction of the famous Uffizi Gallery with the annexed Vasari Corridor, which connects Palazzo Vecchio to Palazzo Pitti.

Giorgio Vasari lived in Arezzo, but had to stay in Florence for a long time to take care of such an impressive "fabbriceria", as he himself called the Uffizi construction site, which lasted for twenty years. He received a palace near the Basilica of Santa Croce as a gift from Cosimo I dei Medici, so that he could also live adequately in Florence. The cycle of frescoes that Vasari created in his Florentine mansion is majestic and exalts the primacy of painting over all the arts with allegorical and mythological scenes.

Let's not wait any longer, let's go and see them in complete relaxation with a specialized guide to be able to understand and love them deeply!