Lives of the Artists
work by Vasari
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- In art market: The rise of Rome
1550 publication of Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists and the expansion of art criticism and theoretical writing. Associated phenomena include the establishment of the first academies of art and the collecting of drawings, an activity pioneered in print by Vasari in his Book of Drawings and followed in the…
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