Giorgio Vasari

Writer 1511 – 1574
Steady
#867
Historical Importance
126K
2025 Wikipedia Views
-8.7%
Year-over-Year
-1%
2025 Momentum

📈 2025 Monthly Wikipedia Views

About Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) was an influential Italian painter, architect, and writer, most renowned today for his work *Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects*. This seminal text is considered the first work of art history, effectively establishing the concept of the Renaissance and providing biographical details for countless seminal artists, which is why he earns an HPI Rank of #867 among historically important figures.

However, the modern internet allocates significantly less attention to this foundational art historian. Vasari garnered 126K annualized Wikipedia views in 2025, placing him in an 'Attention Gap' of -3x relative to his historical importance. To illustrate this underattention, his view count is substantially lower than that of Arthur Rimbaud (#948 importance, 380K views) or Jack London (#952 importance, 653K views), despite Vasari’s substantially higher historical ranking.

His viewership trend also suggests waning contemporary interest, with his Year-over-Year Change declining by -8.7% and his Q1 to Q3 Momentum showing a -1% drop, indicating a continued erosion of modern online cultural relevance.