THE COLLECTOR OF LIVES

An accomplished painter, architect and diplomat, Giorgio Vasari (1511?1574) is best known for Lives of the Artists, his classic acco unt of the great mastersan extraordinary book that invented the genre of artistic biography, single-handedly established the canon of Italian Renaissance art and founded the cults of Raphael, Leonardo and Michelangelo that persist to this day. Vasari positioned a rt as an intellectual pursuit instead of just a technical skill, teaching us to view artists as geniuses and visionaries rather than as simple...[Llegir més]