TY - BOOK AU - Vasari,Giorgio AU - De Vere,Gaston du C. TI - Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10): Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero AV - N PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Artists -- Italy -- Biography KW - Art, Italian N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Most_Excellent_Painters,_Sculptors,_and_Architects; Release date is 2010-04-10; Produced by Mark C. Orton, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10)" by Giorgio Vasari is a series of artist biographies written in the 16th century. This groundbreaking work established the genre of art history writing, chronicling the lives and achievements of Renaissance masters. Vasari combines technical insights with colorful anecdotes—some true, some likely invented—about Italy's greatest creative minds. Though criticized for favoring Florentine artists over others, it remains an essential, influential source for understanding Renaissance art and the personalities who shaped it. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31938 ER -