Vasari Not Sorry: Reading On Technique and Lives as a Graduate Student - CMSMC Foundations
Channel: CMSMC
Date: 2021-08-30

Lecture by Christine Staton

A lecture on the seminal texts of Giorgio Vasari: On Technique and Lives. These two works are foundational to the study of early modern art history, but must also be familiar to scholars of subsequent eras in the West as Vasari is widely considered to be the first art historian (as we understand the role today). The format and methodology of these texts remain pervasive in modern art-historical thought and scholarship.

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