‘Vasari’s words’. Review of: Douglas Biow, Vasari’s Words: The Lives of the Artists as a History of Ideas in the Italian Renaissance, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 2018

This is a slim, careful volume that in its implication, ranges far and wide across the culture of the arts in the Renaissance. The immediate subject is a group of terms that appear in the account of the lives of the artists – though that exact word he never used – written by Giorgio Vasari and publi...

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Main Author: David Cast
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2019-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/cast-rev.pdf