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Quotation from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (Volume 1) by Giorgio Vasari
“they will now be able to recognize more easily the progress of her second birth and of that very perfection whereto she has risen again in our times.”
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (Volume 1), Preface to the Lives, trans. Gaston du C. de Vere
Having compared the arts to human bodies that are born, grow old and die, Vasari announces the story of their rebirth.
Citation: "they will now be able to recognize more easily the progress of her second birth and of that very perfection whereto she has risen again in our times." — Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (Volume 1), Preface to the Lives, trans. Gaston du C. de Vere. (id vasari-lives-of-the-artists-q2)
Portrait: Zucchi, Jacopo - Vasari, Giorgio - Uffizi ICCD, Attributed to Jacopo Zucchi, Public domain.
