The collector of lives : Giorgio Vasari and the invention of art
by Rowland, Ingrid D. (Author), Charney, Noah (Author)
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"Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents--a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar--but he is best known for Lives of the Artists, the classic account that singlehandedly invented the genre of artistic biography and established the canon of Italian Renaissance art. Before Vas... Full description