Art Without an Author : : Vasari's Lives and Michelangelo's Death / / Marco Ruffini.
Why is the history of art so often construed as a history of artists, when its alleged focus is art? This book responds to this question by examining Giorgio Vasari’s Lives and the artist it features most centrally, Michelangelo. Printed in Florence in 1550 and republished in a substantially enlarge...
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