Giorgio Vasari: The Book of Drawings. The Fate of a Mythical Collection

by Louis Frank and Carina Fryklund

Exhibition: Paris, Musée du Louvre and Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, 2022

240 pages, over 100 colour and black and white illustrations. Paperback. 25 x 20cms.  

A study and recreation of Giorgio Vasari's 'Libro de' disegni', his lost collection of drawings accompanying his 'Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects'. Ten essays discuss the historiography of Vasari's lost book of drawings, his classification system, the collection's dispersal, figures like Niccolo di Sinibaldo Gaddi, and includes a technical analysis of extant mounts. Appendices include excerpts from Vasari's 'Lives' written in Italian. 

Ref: 123134  

£ 55.00

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