Vasari on Technique; Being the Introduction to the Three Arts of Design, Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Prefixed to the Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects; 1907

Laura Morelli holds a PhD in art history from Yale University, where she was awarded a Mellon Doctoral Fellowship in art history and a Bass Fellowship for writing in the humanities. She has been a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome and an art history commentator for the History Channel. She is also a bestselling historical novelist, whose books include The Keeper of Lost Art, The Last Masterpiece, The Night Portrait, and The Gondola Maker.