Editing Giorgio Vasari (section)

==Architecture==
[[File:Firenze - Uffizi.jpg|thumb|The Uffizi Loggia|left]]
Aside from his career as a painter, Vasari was successful as an architect.<ref>"Vasari's ability as a painter cannot match his talents either as a historian or as an architect," according to [[Lawrence Gowing]], ed., Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists, v.4 (Facts on File, 2005): 695.</ref> His [[loggia]] of the Palazzo degli [[Uffizi]] by the [[Arno]] opens up the vista at the far end of its long narrow courtyard. It is a unique piece of urban planning that functions as a public piazza, and which, if considered as a short street, is unique as a Renaissance street with a unified architectural treatment.{{Clarify|reason=unclear meaning|date=July 2023}} The view of the Loggia from the Arno reveals that the [[Vasari Corridor]] is one of the very few structures lining the river that is open to the river and appears to embrace the riverside environment.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-02-21 |title=Tuscan artists' insight: Giorgio Vasari |url=https://www.florenceitaly.org/tuscan-artists-insight-giorgio-vasari/?lang=en |access-date=2024-09-16 |website=FlorenceItaly |language=en-US}}</ref>

In Florence, Vasari also designed the long passage, now called Vasari Corridor, which connects the Uffizi with the [[Palazzo Pitti]] on the other side of the river. The corridor passes alongside the River Arno on an arcade, crosses the [[Ponte Vecchio]], and winds around the exterior of several buildings. It was once the location of the Mercado de Vecchio.<ref>Pevsner, N., ''A History of Building Types'', Princeton University Press, 1979, pg. 235</ref> He renovated the medieval churches of [[Santa Maria Novella]] and [[Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence|Santa Croce]]. In both buildings, he removed the original [[rood screen]] and loft, and remodeled the retro-[[choir]]s in the Mannerist taste of his time.<ref name="EB1911" />

In Santa Croce, Vasari produced the painting of ''The Adoration of the Magi'' commissioned by [[Pope Pius V]] in 1566 and completed in February 1567. It was restored recently, before being exhibited in 2011 in Rome and Naples. Eventually, it will be returned to the church of Santa Croce in [[Bosco Marengo]] ([[Province of Alessandria]], [[Piedmont]]).{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}} In 1562, Vasari built the octagonal dome on the [[Basilica of Our Lady of Humility]] in [[Pistoia]], an important example of [[High Renaissance]] architecture.<ref>''The Christian Travelers Guide to Italy'' by David Bershad, Carolina Mangone, Irving Hexham 2001 {{ISBN|0-310-22573-6}}-page [https://books.google.com/books?id=KRkU9ocQr2oC&pg=PA139]</ref> In Rome, Vasari worked with [[Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola]] and [[Bartolomeo Ammannati]] at [[Pope Julius III]]'s [[Villa Giulia]].