The Economist

Giorgio Vasari, the man who created art history

The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art. By Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney. Norton; 432 pages; $29.95 and £23.99. TOWARDS the end of his life Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most ...
The New York Times

After ‘a Treasure Hunt,’ a Cut-Up Masterpiece Returns to Venice

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. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reported from Venice Over ...
Artnet

Did Jan van Eyck Really Invent Oil Paint?

In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...
The Art Newspaper

Pontormo, Vasari and Michelangelo take leading roles in this 16th-century whodunnit

The monumental frescoes in the choir of San Lorenzo in Florence, commissioned in 1546 by Cosimo I de’ Medici, Duke of Florence, were supposed to be the painter Jacopo da Pontormo’s artistic legacy.