In an imaginative way, he animated his subjects in a poetical matter. The renaissance proverb of "every painter paint himself" is reflected on his book. The artists have become stars of their very stories and of the Italian Renaissance art instead of being "work"ers. Furthermore, Vasari underlines that he respected not only the work itself and the artist himself, but also to the process of creation which is ,according to him, covered with mysteries. His point of view recognizes "the magic of genius" which is different from talent and ability of imagination, that the working process involves a spiritual dimension. This spiritual dimension is also visible in his style of writing that how he does not only tell, but reconstructs the events artists had been faced. Hence, the book has double effect that, firstly, the lives of the artists are phased in a way which reflects the understandings of the renaissance time and secondly, phases of renaissance are mentioned parallel to the artists' lives. From the high level of the given personal details and anectodes, it could be said that Vasari had been far from simply writing information- giving based biographies and biography based art history.

To sum up, Vasari, as the first art historian, had an approach of relating the greatness of the work with the artists very being, hence, he wrote the lifestories of the artists and p

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