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

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

Ingrid D. Rowland, Noah Charney

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, which singlehandedly established the canon of Italian Renaissance art. Before Vasari's extrao...

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