Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori

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Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori is Giorgio Vasari’s seminal 16th-century collection of artists’ biographies that helped define the history and concept of the Italian Renaissance.

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instanceOf Renaissance treatise
art history book
biographical work
author Giorgio Vasari NERFINISHED
contains anecdotal accounts of artists' lives
critical evaluations of artists
countryOfOrigin Italy
focusesOn architects
painters
sculptors
genre art history
biography
hasPart biography of Andrea Mantegna
biography of Andrea del Sarto
biography of Benvenuto Cellini
biography of Botticelli
biography of Brunelleschi
biography of Cimabue
biography of Correggio
biography of Donatello
biography of Fra Angelico
biography of Ghiberti
biography of Giorgione
biography of Giotto
biography of Leonardo da Vinci
biography of Luca della Robbia
biography of Masaccio
biography of Michelangelo
biography of Paolo Uccello
biography of Perugino
biography of Piero della Francesca NERFINISHED
biography of Pontormo
biography of Raphael
biography of Rosso Fiorentino
biography of Titian
historicalContext 16th-century Italy
influenced Renaissance studies
later art historians
mainSubject Italian Renaissance art
artists' biographies
movementDescribed Mannerism
Renaissance NERFINISHED
originalLanguage Italian
perspective Florentine-centered view of art history
significance foundational text of art historiography
helped define the concept of the Italian Renaissance
timePeriodDescribed Italian Renaissance NERFINISHED
Middle Ages NERFINISHED

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Giorgio Vasari notableWork Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori