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, 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, and artists were mere decorators and craftsmen. It...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393241319
• ISBN13: 9780393241310
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"