Giorgio Vasari was a true Renaissance man - artist, architect, writer and scientist. But he is best known for his book Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects - still the main source of information about the Italian Renaissance. It is thanks to Vasari that we know so much about Leonardo, Michelangelo, Titian and other geniuses. Moreover, with this work he laid the foundation for a new science - art history. But who was Vasari himself? The book you are holding in your hands is an attempt to tell the story of a man who forever changed our ideas about art. It is being published in Russian for the first time.