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Giorgio Vasari

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Giorgio Vasari is the foremost example of an art critic in the 16th century. Vasari was himself an artist and also a member of the Florentine Academy, where he met other writers interested in art criticism. They mutually benefited from one another.
In 1915 Berenson bought the second edition of Vasari's Lives "Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori" (Florence 1568). We do not know when he came into possession of the adjunct edition "Ritratti de' più eccellenti pittori scultori et architetti" (Florence 1568). This is an extremely rare copy, of which the library holds one of three known exemplars. It shows only the portraits of artists without the text given in other versions.

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