/lit/ - Literature

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from my text 'Art History and It's Methods- a critical anthology'

Giorgio Vasari - ' The Lives of the Artists', 1568
Karel van Mander - 'The Painter's Book' 1604
Giovanni Bellori - 'The Lives of the Modern Painters Sculptors and Architects' 1672
Johann Joachim Winckelmann - 'The History of Ancient Art' 1764
Goethe - 'Of German Architecture' 1722
Jacob Bruckhardxt - 'Reflections on History' 1872
William Morris - 'The Revival of Architecture' 1888
Giovanni Morelli - 'The Italian Painter' 1890
Alois Riegl - ' Late Roman Art Industry' 1901
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There's more for the 20th century topics

alternatively there's classic novelizations of great painters but their names escape me atm