The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art by Noah Charney, Ingrid Rowland

The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art

Noah Charney, Ingrid Rowland

432 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction art biography history challenging informative slow-paced

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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 establishe...

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