……the English Country House；皮朗的《穆罕默德与查理曼》；朗西曼的《君士坦丁堡的陷落》；奇波拉的《枪炮、帆船与帝国》；哈达斯的《罗马史》；阿曼的《中世纪战争艺术》；瓦萨里的《艺苑名人传》；博维尔的《摩尔人的黄金贸易》；凯撒的《高卢战记》；库恩的《哥白尼革命》
…the English Country House Pirenne, Mohammed and Charlemagne Runciman, The Fall of Constantinople Cipolla, Guns, Sails and Empires Hadas, A History of Rome Oman, The Art of War in the Middle Ages Vasari, Lives of the Artists Bovill, The Golden Trade of the Moors Caesar, Gallic Wars Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution
The reason the Mona Lisa is so famous is because Vasari waxes serious lyrical about it in his Lives of the Artists (published in 1550). Here's what he says about it: "Anyone wishing to see the degree to which art could imitate nature could readily perceive this from the head; since therein are counterfeited all those…
What a bizarre list. Camera Lucida and On Photography are masterpieces that anyone interested in photography as an art form should read, but they don't say a lot about the lives of the artists whose work they describe. Barthes says virtually nothing about the photographers' lives, in fact.
……the English Country House；皮朗的《穆罕默德与查理曼》；朗西曼的《君士坦丁堡的陷落》；奇波拉的《枪炮、帆船与帝国》；哈达斯的《罗马史》；阿曼的《中世纪战争艺术》；瓦萨里的《艺苑名人传》；博维尔的《摩尔人的黄金贸易》；凯撒的《高卢战记》；库恩的《哥白尼革命》
…the English Country House Pirenne, Mohammed and Charlemagne Runciman, The Fall of Constantinople Cipolla, Guns, Sails and Empires Hadas, A History of Rome Oman, The Art of War in the Middle Ages Vasari, Lives of the Artists Bovill, The Golden Trade of the Moors Caesar, Gallic Wars Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution
《蒙娜丽莎》之所以这么出名，是因为瓦萨里在他的《艺苑名人传》（1550年出版）里对它大吹特吹、极尽溢美之词。他是这么说的：“任何人若想知道艺术模仿自然能达到何种程度，只要看看这颗头颅便一目了然；因为画中逼真地再现了所有那些……
The reason the Mona Lisa is so famous is because Vasari waxes serious lyrical about it in his Lives of the Artists (published in 1550). Here's what he says about it: "Anyone wishing to see the degree to which art could imitate nature could readily perceive this from the head; since therein are counterfeited all those…
这书单太奇怪了。《明室》（Camera Lucida）和《论摄影》（On Photography）确实是杰作，任何对摄影艺术感兴趣的人都应该读读，但它们对书中讨论的艺术家的生平并没怎么提及。事实上，巴特对摄影师的生平基本上一字未提。
What a bizarre list. Camera Lucida and On Photography are masterpieces that anyone interested in photography as an art form should read, but they don't say a lot about the lives of the artists whose work they describe. Barthes says virtually nothing about the photographers' lives, in fact.