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Lives Of The Most Renaissance People Sparknotes

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Lives of the Most Eminent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors was a book written by Giorgio Vasari in 1550. It celebrated the accomplishments of renaissance artists. His biography on Leonardo Da Vinci is one of his best known works because of his “concern for detail, anecdote, and instruction. Vasari was a painter, architect, writer and historian that was in high demand throughout the Italian Peninsula and because of it wrote his book from an artist point of view rather than a historian’s. According to Giorgio Vasari, Leonardo Da Vinci is the physical representation of the ideal renaissance. Society in the renaissance praised men who were well ethereal, intelligent, and well rounded. Da vinci, as described by Vasari, was celestial,
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