![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I recently sat down with Davide Gasparotto, senior curator of paintings at the Getty Museum, to discuss three of Vasari’s Lives: those of the Italian Renaissance artists Giovanni Bellini, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Even today, one reads them for pleasure and edification, and no course in Renaissance art is complete without them. Vasari’s Lives, as they are called, are rightly considered the foundation of art historical writing. Giorgio Vasari, although a Florentine painter of great distinction, is perhaps best known today for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects from Cimabue to Our Times, first published in 1550. Welcome to Art and Ideas, a podcast in which I speak to artists, conservators, authors, and scholars about their work.ĭAVIDE GASPAROTTO: I would not say that Vasari invented the Renaissance, but I would say that he probably invented art history.ĬUNO: In this episode I speak with Getty Museum paintings curator Davide Gasparotto about the lives of three Renaissance artists: Giovanni Bellini, Raphael, and Michelangelo. JIM CUNO: Hello, I’m Jim Cuno, president of the J. ![]()
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