Lives Of The Artists
by Peter Bondanella · first published 2008
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2014–2019first – last mentioned
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…the English Country House Pirenne, Mohammed and Charlemagne Runciman, The Fall of Constantinople Cipolla, Guns, Sails and Empires Hadas, A History of Rome Oman, The Art of War in the Middle Ages Vasari, Lives of the Artists Bovill, The Golden Trade of the Moors Caesar, Gallic Wars Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution
on “The IPO is dying – Marc Andreessen explains why” ↗The reason the Mona Lisa is so famous is because Vasari waxes serious lyrical about it in his Lives of the Artists (published in 1550). Here's what he says about it: "Anyone wishing to see the degree to which art could imitate nature could readily perceive this from the head; since therein are counterfeited all those…
on “Time to Take Down the Mona Lisa?” ↗What a bizarre list. Camera Lucida and On Photography are masterpieces that anyone interested in photography as an art form should read, but they don't say a lot about the lives of the artists whose work they describe. Barthes says virtually nothing about the photographers' lives, in fact.
on “Maria Loh recommends the best books on Lives of Artists” ↗