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

by Ingrid Rowland, Noah Charney, Ingrid D. Rowland

Book Overview

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 extraordinary book, art was considered a technical skill, and artists were mere decorators and craftsmen. It was through Vasari's visionary writings that Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo came to be regarded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393356361
• ISBN13: 9780393356366
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.1"