Traces of Soul, Mind, and Body
In the second edition of his great collection of artists’ biographies, Le vite dei piu eccelenti pitturi, scultori ed architettori (1568), the Tuscan painter and architect Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) wrote the following about the significance of drawing: “Seeing that Design, the parent of our three arts, Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting, having its origin in the…