14th Century

Travels with Vasari; Melvyn Bragg's Radical Lives

Margaret's picture Posted by Margaret on Friday, August 15, 2014 - 12:00

Travels with Vasari is a two-part documentary we've had on the PVR for the last 4 years or thereabouts. It's presented by Andrew Graham Dixon and is about Vasari, and Renaissance Italy. Vasari was an artist in Italy in the 16th Century but nowadays he is much more famous for the book he wrote called "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects". Dixon explained that this is the first work of art criticism and art history as we know those subjects today, and that Vasari can be credited with inventing them.

"Plantagenet England 1225-1360" Michael Prestwich (Interlude)

Margaret's picture Posted by Margaret on Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 12:00

In terms of page count I'm about three fifths of the way through Michael Prestwich's "Plantagenet England 1225-1360" and in terms of subject matter I've just finished one of the two sections that the book is divided into. So this seemed a good place to take a small pause and think about what I've spent the last several months reading.

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