Vasari’s Lives of the Artists, BBC Radio 4 Broadcast

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Vasari’s Lives of the Artists, BBC Radio 4 Broadcast

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sg2y4

“Melvyn Bragg discusses ‘Lives of the Artists’ – the great biographer Giorgio Vasari’s study of Renaissance painters, sculptors and architects. In 1550 a little known Italian artist, Giorgio Vasari, published a revolutionary book entitled ‘Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times’.” (Quote from BBC Radio 4, linked above)

Tagged: Art, Audio media, BBC, Cultural Studies, Italian Renaissance, Medicis

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