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1. Gior·gio [jawr-jaw] /ˈdʒɔr dʒɔ/, 1511–74, Italian painter, architect, and art historian.

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1. Giorgio (ˈdʒordʒo). 1511–74, Italian architect, painter, and art historian, noted for his Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors (1550; 1568), a principal source for the history of Italian Renaissance art