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Matthews Gallery

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Santa Fe, New Mexico art gallery. We exhibit distinctive European and American masters, Santa Fe and Taos artists, American modernism and contemporary art by established artists.
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Buon Compleanno Giorgio Vasari! (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574)           Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.

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1. Vies des Peintres, Sculpteurs et Architects les Plus Célèbres, Par G. Vasari, Peintre et Archtecte Arétin; Traduites de L’Italien, Avec des notes, particulièrement celles de Bottari, Et les portraits de chaque artiste, gravés à l’eau-forte par G. Boichot, correspond. de l’institut national. Vols. I-III. A Paris: Chez Boiste, 1803.

2. Frontispiece “Giorgio Vasari by himself from the Original Painting now in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence” from The Life of Giorgio Vasari; A Study of the Later Renaissance in italy By Robert W. Carden, A.R.I.B.A. with illustrations.  London: Philip Lee Warner, 1910.

3. Frontispiece “Michel-ange Bonarroti, guil.me Boichot, d. sc.” from  Vies des Peintres, Sculpteurs et Architects les Plus Célèbres, Par G. Vasari, Peintre et Archtecte Arétin; Traduites de L’Italien, Avec des notes, particulièrement celles de Bottari, Et les portraits de chaque artiste, gravés à l’eau-forte par G. Boichot, correspond. de l’institut national. Vol. III. A Paris: Chez Boiste, 1803.

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