Giorgio Vasari: Art and History.

Renaissance Quarterly | June 22, 1997| | Copyright

Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects, was first published in an edition of 1550. In the following years it was revised and expanded - with the advice of historians and litterati in Vasari's circle at the court of the granddukes of Tuscany - for publication in 1568. It is much more than a sourcebook on the lives and works of Italian (and a few northern) artists from the time of Giotto until Vasari's contemporaries. It is the foundation of modern art history and critical theory and - on the relatively rare occasions when Vasari relaxes from his ...

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