The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects - Modern Library Classics - Giorgio Vasari - Books - Random House USA Inc - 9780375760365 - February 14, 2006
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The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects - Modern Library Classics New edition

Giorgio Vasari

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The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects - Modern Library Classics New edition

A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographical writing, Vasari infused these literary portraits with a decidedly modern form of critical judgment. The result is a work that remains to this day the cornerstone of art historical scholarship.
Spanning the period from the thirteenth century to Vasari?s own time, the Lives opens a window on the greatest personalities of the period, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Mantegna, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian. This Modern Library edition, abridged from the original text with notes drawn from earlier commentaries, as well as current research, reminds us why The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects is indispensable to any student interested in Renaissance art.


592 pages, black & white line drawings

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 14, 2006
ISBN13 9780375760365
Publishers Random House USA Inc
Pages 640
Dimensions 141 × 203 × 36 mm   ·   510 g
Language English  
Translator De Vere, Gaston Du C.

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