<p>Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of th...
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Number of Pages: 616
ISBN: 019283410X
ISBN-13: 9780192834102
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Simply Mike @Michael99241667
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Jan 14, 2023
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This one was neat
Shibboleth Denier @incelsage
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Jan 14, 2023
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And Vasari's Lives of the Artists of course.
Steve Sailer @Steve_Sailer
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Florentine Renaissance artists are more famous today than their Venetian contemporaries in large part because Vasari, a Florentine, wrote about them while some were still alive. But that says a lot about how readable and full of interest is Vasari's book "Lives of the Artists."