{"id":6219,"count":106,"description":"Looking for books about art history? Browse through our expert recommendations to find the best books on art history to give as a gift to an art lover\u2014or for your own library. For a survey of the entire field, we recommend A World History of Art\u00a0<\/em>by Hugh Honour and John Fleming<\/a>, which \"holds the field as the most comprehensive as well as the most intelligent survey of the whole of the world\u2019s history of art,\" according to art historian John Harrison.\r\n\r\nAlso often recommended is The Lives of the Artists\u00a0<\/em>by Giorgio Vasari,<\/a> first published in 1550 but very readable. Vasari, whose house you can still visit in the Italian town of Arezzo, wrote about Leonardo and Michelangelo (amongst others) and to some extent \"invented art history as we know it,\" according to Renaissance scholar Kenneth Bartlett.\r\n\r\nOur archive covers a vast array of subjects, extending well beyond the bestseller lists. In contrast to other online reviews, Five Books<\/em> content is timeless and our contributors authoritative \u2013 these truly are the best books on everything<\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/art-books\/history-of-art\/","name":"Art History","slug":"history-of-art","taxonomy":"category","parent":6467,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/6219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/6467"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=6219"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=6219"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}