Anne-Lise Desmas

Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve

Filippo Baldinucci (1624–1697) was a Florentine painter and scholar linked with the Medici

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California State University

The Life of Raphael 2025 Father's Day Anne-Lise DesmasGiorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari, Florentine painter and architect, friend of Michelangelo and intimate of the Medici, is best known for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, published in 1550 and in an enlarged edition in 1568. With more than two hundred biographies, it has for centuries been recognized as a seminal text in art history and one of the most important sources on the Italian Renaissance. It is to Vasari that we