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Giorgio Vasari : Delle vite de piu eccelenti pittori, scultori, ed archittetori

Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 6 June 1843: 'I read Vasari, all day -- yesterday[.] Why are Vasari's Lives so popular [--] why have they gone through so many Editions? -- because what is anecdotical & human is not sacrificed for the sake of the abstract & professional [...] The fact the Michael Angelo was liable to head aches -- is a Comfort! and when I read he had the cramp! -- my dear, I rise an inch taller as I walk'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Robert Haydon      Print: Book

Giorgio Vasari : unknown

Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Cornelius Mathews, mid-January 1847: 'We live here in the most secluded manner, eschewing English visitors and reading Vasari'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

Giorgio Vasari : Delle vite de piu eccelenti pittori, scultori, ed archittetori

Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 4 February 1847: 'By the grace of M. Ferucci, we have Vasari from the library, & are ploughing through it [...] Really I do venture to think it a dull book. Perhaps when we reach his contemporaries, we may find more flesh & blood.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

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