Le Vite de' Piv Eccellenti Pittori Scultori et Architettori...
Author Giorgio Vasari Italian
Publisher Heirs of Filippo da Giunta Italian
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Giorgio Vasari's vast, three-volume compendium of biographies of the most celebrated Italian artists of the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries was first published in 1550. A revised, expanded edition appeared in 1568, with each biography accompanied by a woodcut portrait. Exhibited here is the portrait of Perino del Vaga, a pupil of Raphael and the leading painter in Rome in the middle of the sixteenth century, whose informative biography is second in length only to that of Vasari's hero, Michelangelo.
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