Via Giuseppe Mazzini, 60
52100
Arezzo (AR), Toscana - Italy
Arezzo, "Canto de' Perini", nowadays is Via Giuseppe Mazzini no. 60, is the address of Birth house of Giorgio Vasari. The Vasaris were from Cortona. The great-grandfather was Lazzaro Taldi, not Vasari (1399 - 1468); he was a saddler and even a painter (in San Domenico church there is a fresco of him). Lazzaro's family moved to Arezzo and bought the house in Via Mazzini. Lazzaro's son, who was Giorgio's grandfather was named Giorgio him too and since he started working as a potter (pots maker) he changed his name from Taldi to Vasari (in Italian language in the etimology of word Vasari is Vaso that means "pot").
The father of Giorgio Vasari (the son of Giorgio's grandfather) was Antonio and married the sister of Luca Signorelli who, the 30th of july of 1511 gave to birth the one who would become a famous painter and architect in Arezzo.
The birth house of vasari, nowadays is a house inhabited by people and there is nothing inside reserved to visitors and tourists.
There is still the coat of arms of the Vasaris representing a pot over the entrance door.
Inside, especially on the first floor there are still many coat of arms of the original eve and many paintings that came out further to the peeling off of the plaster.
Behind the house, invisible from the road, there is a large vegetable garden where you used to work and where the pots were placed to dry off under the sun made by the Vasaris.