The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art. By Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney. Norton; 432 pages; $29.95 and £23.99. TOWARDS the end of his life Michelangelo Buonarroti ...

To embellish the building’s interior, he turned to Giorgio Vasari whose Mannerist paintings were highly fashionable. For the coffered ceiling of the palazzo’s camera nova, Vasari floated a ...

a tragic loss for a city considered the birthplace of the Renaissance One victim was “The Last Supper,” by Giorgio Vasari, a 16th-century Italian artist and author of an authoritative ...

On a recent reconnoiter, however, I discovered this 16 th-century painting, attributed to a young Giorgio Vasari, in the backroom of ACA Galleries, better known for showing neglected modernists.

PanARMENIAN.Net - A 16th-century painting by Renaissance artist Giorgio Vasari that was badly damaged in a 1966 flood in Florence will be unveiled to the public on Friday, November 5 after years ...

Four and a half centuries after his death, we still owe our understanding of art’s greatest period to Giorgio Vasari. By Michael Prodger The year 1550 was one of the most significant in the history of ...

In the mid-1500s, Giorgio Vasari's short biographies created art history, the artist as genius and even the "Renaissance". Although rife with inaccuracies and outright lies, his book is still the ...

A 16th-century painting by Renaissance artist Giorgio Vasari that was badly damaged in a 1966 flood in Florence has been unveiled to the public after years of painstaking restoration. Vasari ...

Show more Melvyn Bragg discusses 'Lives of the Artists' - the great biographer Giorgio Vasari's study of Renaissance painters, sculptors and architects. In 1550 a little known Italian artist ...