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These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance," was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression... read more

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HAVING discussed drawing and painting in the life of Cimabue, and architecture in that of Arnolfo di Lapo, in this life of Nicola and of Giovanni Pisano I shall deal with sculpture, and also with the very important buildings which they created.
 

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