Giorgio Vasari Art and History Author:Patricia Rubin Since its publication in the mid-sixteenth century, Vasari`s Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects has been a central text for the study of Italian Renaissance art, the book that invented art history. Patricia Rubin now takes a new look at the Lives, examining how Vasari worked as a historian and biographer, investigating the sources ... more »and context of his book, and looking at the conventions of historical writing of his time.« less