The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art

Ingrid Rowland · Noah Charney

Nov 2018 · Highbridge Audio · Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon

About this audiobook

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents-a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar-but he is best known for Lives of the Artists, which singlehandedly established the canon of Italian Renaissance art. Before Vasari's extraordinary book, art was considered a technical skill, and artists were mere decorators and craftsmen. It was through Vasari's visionary writings that Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo came to be regarded as great masters of life as well as art, their creative genius celebrated as a divine gift. Lauded by Sarah Bakewell as "insightful, gripping, and thoroughly enjoyable," The Collector of Lives reveals how one Renaissance scholar completely redefined how we look at art.

About the author

Ingrid Rowland is a professor at the Rome Global Gateway of the University of Notre Dame, based in the Department of History and the School of Architecture.

Noah Charney is an internationally bestselling author and professor of art history living in Slovenia.

As a retired board-certified music therapist, licensed counselor, and veteran of the Michigan Opera and several community theaters, Jennifer Dixon has explored the power of words and music to motivate, inspire, provoke, soothe, and heal. She brings this unique perspective to her work as an audiobook narrator.