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Article: Giorgio Vasari: Storico e critico.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2008
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Mario Pozzi and Enrico Mattioda. Giorgio Vasari: Storico e critico.
Biblioteca dell' "Archivum Romanicum." Series 1: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia 330. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2006. xxii + 436 pp. index. [euro]45. ISBN: 978-88-222-5497-9.
Vasari's Lives is essential reading for those wishing to understand Italian Renaissance art and the lives of the artists who created it. In many scholarly works Vasari's overarching themes are ignored, misunderstood, or misrepresented. In Giorgio Vasari storico e critico, Mario Pozzi and Enrico Mattioda seek to outline the unifying principles behind the Lives--principles that Vasari derived from the study of ...