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Art people to know
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pliny the Elder | Ancient Roman historian (23-79 CE) who sought to analyze the historical and contemporary art in his text Natural history. |
| Giorgio Vasari | Renaissance author and artist (1511-74) who gathered biographies of great italian artists, PAST AND PRESENT, in his text The Lives of the Artists. |
| Johann Joachim Winckelmann | German scholar who shifted away from Vasari's biographical emphasis to the rigorous study of stylistic development as related to historical context. |