An instant success upon its publication in the mid-sixteenth century, Giorgio Vasari''s "Lives of the Artists remains one of the principal resources for study of the art and artists of the Italian Renaissance. The "Lives''" colorful and detailed portraits of the most representative figures of Italia[...]

Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first[...]

Giorgio Vasari and the Birth of the Museum offers the first dedicated and comprehensive study of Vasari's original contributions to the making of museums, addressing the subject from the full range of aspects-collecting, installation, conceptual-historical-in which his influence is strongly felt. Un[...]