The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari

616 pages first pub 1550 (editions)

nonfiction art biography history adventurous reflective slow-paced

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A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographic...

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