Book · 1550 · Nonfiction

The Lives of the Artists

Oxford University Press, USA · 624 pages
★ 7.3 editorial score

Vasari was a working painter who knew Michelangelo. His lives of the Italian artists, from Cimabue onward, mix workshop technique with pure gossip, and gave us most of what we believe about genius.

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1550Depicts The Renaissance