The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari

The Lives of the Artists

Giorgio Vasari with Julia Conway Bondanella (Translator), Peter Bondanella (Translator)

586 pages first pub 1550 (editions)

nonfiction art biography history informative slow-paced

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These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance," was the first to outline the influential theory...

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