Dezailler d’Argenville et les sources italiennes de l’Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres Chiara Savattieri This article discusses the way Dézailler D’Argenville deals with Italian schools of painting in his famouswork Abrégé de la vie des peintres (1745-1752; 1762). In fact, he uses Italian sources in an original way,removing or reducing anecdotes relevant…