@article{800275,
      author = {Rowland, Ingrid D. and Charney, Noah,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/800275},
      title = {The collector of lives : Giorgio Vasari and the invention  of art /},
      abstract = {"Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents--a  sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar--but he  is best known for Lives of the Artists, the classic account  that singlehandedly invented the genre of artistic  biography and established the canon of Italian Renaissance  art. Before Vasari's extraordinary book, art was considered  a technical skill rather than an intellectual pursuit, and  artists were mere decorators and craftsmen. It was through  Vasari's visionary writings that artists like Raphael,  Leonardo, and Michelangelo came to be regarded as great  masters of life as well as art, their creative genius  celebrated as a divine gift. Their enduring reputations  testify to Vasari's profound yet unspoken influence on  western culture. An advisor to kings and pontiffs--and a  confidant to Titian, Donatello, and more--Vasari enjoyed an  exhilarating career amid the thrilling culture of  Renaissance Italy"--Inside dust jacket.},
      recid = {800275},
      pages = {viii, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :},
}