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Known as the first art historian,聽Giorgio Vasari wrote the legendary book聽Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.

As the title suggests, Is Art History? Selected Writings collects a representative array of academic articles, catalog essays, lectures.

A rarely-seen trove of European drawings spanning 500 years will be on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art from January 16鈥揂pril 27, 2025.

鈥業 don鈥檛 need LSD for things to look pretty,鈥� says Ellen, the artist protagonist of this 1979 New York novel by painter and writer Elaine Kraf (who died in 2013).

Giorgio Vasari famously reported that in 1494 Piero de鈥� Medici commissioned Michelangelo to make a snowman 鈥� it was 鈥榲ery beautiful鈥�, but nothing more is known about it. 

Cartography is the production of geographical maps and globes. It has evolved both as a science and as an art.

The secret ingredient of art history鈥檚 greatest masterpieces? Bitter, petty feuding.

What a sight it must have been. On June 9, 1311, Duccio鈥檚 The Maesta was paraded from his studio to Siena鈥檚 cathedral. Bells rang as priests, monks, noblemen, and government officials walked beside it.

It is well known that many of the stylistic terms with which the art historian [Here Gombrich is referring to acolytes of art history in the sense that they are obsessed with a history that is inherently European.

The characteristic of arousing surprise for the observer is typical for the so-called Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities. 

Vasari's painting depicted the five virtues surrounded by cherubs.

More than 200 years after a ceiling painted by the Tuscan artist Vasari was dismembered and sold on the antiquarian market, it is (almost) whole again.

The illustrious Renaissance masters and their celebrated artworks have lesser-known stories behind them. 

Towards the end of his life, William Blake met John Constable, perhaps for the first and only time.

We take for granted the Titians and Botticellis that hang in galleries across the United States, little aware of the appetites and inclinations of those who acquired them.