As per certain existent documents you surely know that the rests of Giorgio Vasari and his wife Nicolosa de Bacci, joined together in an urn, rest inside the tomb that lays under the pavement inside the Pieve of Santa Maria Assunta.

Giorgio Vasari was born in Arezzo the 30th of July of 1511. He died the 30th of june 1574 in Firenze in his house in Borgo Santa Croce at the age of 63 years.

In order to be buried his body was sent to Arezzo by the Parish church of Santa Maria Assunta.

The Pieve was the parish church of Vasari since he was baptised and there he has been buried. 

The burial did not occur soon under the pavement of the nave.

Soon after his death he was buried "...nella sepoltura da lui fatta et ordinata alla Cappella dell’altare maggiore da lui eretto et fabbricato nella Pieve Collegiata Aretina…."   (transl: in the burial that he had made and ordered by the Chapel of the Major Altar that he had built up and made in the Pieve Collegiata in Arezzo") close to the painting of Piero Lorenzetti.

Giorgio Vasari himself in his letter to Granduchy Cosimo I,  dated of 18.th of April 1564, while he was reporting his various works made in that Pieve, he wrote he had painted the portraits of his father and mother by the Major Altar: "l'ossa de quali o tutti insieme collocati ‘n una sepoltura in terra, dietro allo altare del mezzo di quel coro, nella quale giudico volere insieme, quando piacerà a Dio, riposare queste travagliate ossa, pur che lo spirito sia degnio della gloria Sua” (transl.:...whose bones I have all joined together and placed in a burial undersoil, behind the medium altar of that choir, in which i judge and want, for pleasure of God,  to rest my troubled bones along with them as long as my spirit is worth of His glory"). The Altar that he built up then was moved to Flora and Lucilla church in Via San Lorentino. During the movement of the Altar the bodies of the Vasari's parents were moved back as they are still nowadays.

During the recovery works at Pieve in 1865, the Archpriest G.B. Restori left his writing: “la mattina del 10 giugno 1865 furono tolti nello sterramento della Chiesa di Pieve alcuni ossami di illustri personaggi e questi furono posti in casse di castagno….fu costruita una fossa nel centro della Chiesa, distante 13 metri dal muro della Porta Maggiore e 4 metri dalla 3.a colonna, per cui quella fossa fu situata nel centro della navata di mezzo e la stessa fossa è lunga m.3.70 e profonda m.1,20 con muri paralleli da ogni parte e con la sua volta di testo ,quindi coperta dal vespaio e pavimento. Entro la medesima fossa vi furono poste le seguenti casse colli avanzi dei cadaveri di : 

- Lazzaro di Giovanni di Feo

- Giorgio Vasari  
- Arciprete Simone Rondinelli  
- Marco De Ghino 
- Bartolomeo Scamici  
- Bartolomeo Guelfi Camaiani Vescovo
-Casini don Francesco” .

(transl: "In the morning of june the 10th 1865 some bones were moved off from the soil of Pieve Church belonging to certain important characters and those were placed in chestnut coffins...a hole was made in the middle of the church 13 meters far from the Main Portal wall and 4 meters far from the 3rd column, so that hole was at the centre of the main nave and the same hole is as long as 3,70 meters and as deep as 1,20 mt with parallel walls on every sides and thus with his head arch covered by the loose stone foundation and the pavement. Inside the same hole there were even the coffins with the rests of the corpses listed hereafter:...")

In that occasion the whole Pieve was recovered. All the decorations were removed and all the arches were removed and re-built up. 

Then it was cleaned and a Romanic style was evidenced.

The church, that was born as a Romanic one, nowadays shows aome Gothic elements but the Romanic is the main style.

The date of building of the Parish church of Santa Maria Assunta is 1216.