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Well my friends, I think I may have found another minor error in an art history textbook. The textbook I use for my Renaissance classes, T...

I guess the Renaissance artist Baccio Bandinelli has been on my mind lately. I realized that somehow I managed to bring up Bandinelli in eac...

The quarter is over. Over the past few days I've reflected on what lectures I enjoyed teaching to my ancient art students. I think tha...

This week I've been thinking about several random art historical facts and ideas. Several of you might have seen some of these links on...

Well faithful readers, I'm sure that you're tired of hearing about Vasari in my posts. I don't blame you. I've been writin...

I'm in a state of shock . Vasari is best known as the biographer for the great (male) artists of the Italian Renaissance - Michelangelo...

Vasari writes that Fra Filippo Lippi made a conscious decision to stop including a lot of hands in his paintings. Apparently, Lippi had bee...

It's always interesting to see how an artist depicts an animal that he/she has never seen. Vasari writes that Paolo Uccello wanted to d...

If you were/are an artist, what would induce you to destroy some of your completed art? A change in taste? Embarrassment? Anger? I am ...