JStor Daily: The Destructive Myth of the Universal Genius (Jul. 14, 2023)

In 1550, in the waning years of the Italian Renaissance, artist and architect Giorgio Vasari published his wildly influential Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. It quickly became a standard text in art history and criticism and remains so to this day, with its famous attribution of superhuman qualities to the quintessential Renaissance genius, Leonardo da Vinci. Read the rest at: https://daily.jstor.org/the-destructive-myth-of-the-universal-genius/