by Peter Murray , Professor of the History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London. The first of two talks about GIORGIO VASARI, painter, architect. artistic impresario and the first modern art historian. In writing his Lives of the Artists Vasari began the essential operation of balancing what you see against what you are told. Vasari died on 27 June 1574.
(June 29: The Rennaissance of Giorgio Vasari by J. R. Hale )