Giorgio Vasari and the birth of the museum

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Decorations and collections in Vasari's houses in Arezzo and Florence / Alessandro Cecchi -- Giorgio Vasari and the Libro de' disegni: a paper museum or portable gallery / Anna Forlani Tempesti -- Giorgio Vasari, collector of epitaphs / Maia Wellington Gahtan -- Giorgio Vasari, Paolo Giovio, portrait collections and the rhetorics of images / Nadia Cannata -- Vasari, Borghini and Cristofano Dell'Altissimo: the papal portraits in the Sala delle carte geografiche / Rick Scorza -- Portrait galleries, artists' biographies and the birth of academies and museums / Tommaso Casini -- Vasari, exhibitor of art: Medici collections of antiquities / Andrea Gáldy -- Giorgio Vasari, Rome and the early forms of display of the Medici collections in Florence : models and afterlife / Donatella Pegazzano -- The order, the itinerary, the beholder: considerations on the some aspects of the Ragionamenti del Sig. Cavalier Giorgio Vasari / Emilie Passignat -- Virtual guided museum tours: Vasari's I ragionamenti and Bartoli's Ragionamenti accademici / Henk Th. van Veen -- Giorgio Vasari, architect: the Uffizi of the Gallery / Claudia Conforti -- The Accademia del Disegno and its museology / Luigi Zangheri -- Paper museums and the multimedia practice of art history: the case of Stefano Mulinari's Istoria pratica (1778-80) in the Uffizi / Ingrid R. Vermeulen -- Vasari: the territory beyond -- Elizabeth Pilliod.