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‘’For all Vasari’s assertions* that the art of his own age was proceeding from strength to strength, there is an uneasy sense in his writings that perhaps his own generation did not, after all, compare favourably with the proceeding one; after the great climax at the beginning of the century, a decline in art was to be feared.’

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*{‘Vite’,** 1550[ce]; cf 2048G~|64C1536[ce];64M~1552[ce]}

** – [Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4: 679]

***[‘Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects’, 1550ce]

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