Giorgio Vasari: Art and History.(Review)

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: June 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. 448 pp.; 11 color ills., 153 b/w. $45.00

Published in the middle years of the 16th century and thus almost 500 years old, Vasari's monumental Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects is without question the single greatest book ever written about the history of art. Far more significantly, it is one of the masterpieces of Western literature. Of great moment, therefore, is the recent reprinting of Gaston du C. de Vere's classic translation of Vasari's biographies in the Everyman's Library series, an affordable, handsomely ...

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