Note: This is part two of my series on Renaissance and Baroque depictions of David. Part One of this series explored the story of King David and, despite his shortcomings, how he came to be a Renaissance hero. Not only…
The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art Noah Charney and Ingrid Rowland
W. W. Norton & Company (2017)
Wise Words
"In every group of travelers, every bunch of tourists in a bus, there is at least one man who insists on pointing out to the others the beauty or interest of things they encounter, even though the others can see the things, too: we are that man, I am afraid, au fond." — Michael Baxandall