Vasari's Five Criteria

Use this page for a TOK/Art discussion and journal reflection on how the criteria we use to judge an art work vary over time and across culturesGiorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was an Italian painter, architect, and writer whose most important contribution to painting was actually a book, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Vasari is regarded by many as the first art biographer or art historian,...


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