Giorgio de Chirico (1888 – 1978) was a Greek-born Italian surrealist painter. His father was an Italian nationalist who moved to Greece for his job as a railway engineer. Coupled with the family’s support of a new Italy was a…
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The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
Noah Charney and Ingrid Rowland
W. W. Norton & Company (2017)
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Velázquez, The Coronation of the Virgin (1635-6), Museo Nacional del Prado Velázquez painted this for Queen Elizabeth of Bourbon’s new prayer..
Titian, The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence (1567), El Escorial. Today is the feast day of Saint Lawrence, who was martyred on a gridiron during Valerian’s..