The vanished collection of Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari’s famous collection of Renaissance drawings was dispersed after his death, and scholars have been trying track down its contents for centuries
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The monetary value of preparatory studies was slight in the Renaissance – but for the ideas they contained, they were worth their weight in gold