Renaissance Greats

[poliphilo]

Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael- the holy trinity of Renaissance art: that's what we've been taught.  And why?  Because Vasari said so.  But suppose the first great history of Western art had been written by a German instead of an Italian. How does Durer, Cranach and Holbein sound?

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me and if I want Italian names, they tend to come from an earlier period.

The Lorenzetti brothers, Cimabue, Martini.......................

It's a mystery why anyone listens to Vasari anyway- failed artist!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've never read Lives of the Artists but I believe it's full of good stories.