Rowland, Ingrid D. (Ingrid Drake)
Summary: 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 Vasari’s extraordinary book, art was considered a technical skill rather than an intellectual pursuit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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Summary: Profiles the late-sixteenth-century philosopher and martyr, including his inspiration in the works of figures such as Shakespeare and Galileo, his lesser-known personal legacy, and his execution as a heretic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008