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The lives of the artists / Giorgio Vasari ; a selection translated by George Bull.
LIBRA N6922 .V49 1987 copy 2 v.2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574.
- Standardized Title:
- Vite de' più eccellenti architetti, pittori et scultori italiani. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Artists--Italy--Biography.
- Artists.
- Italy.
- Art, Italian.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Harmondsworth, Eng. ; New York : Penguin Books, 1987.
- Language Note:
- Translation from: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori.
- Summary:
- In his Lives of artists of the Italian Renaissance, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect, revealing both a deep understanding of human nature and perceptive responses to great works of art. Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to paint; Giulio Romano's startling painting of Jove striking down the giants; and his friend Francesco Salviati, whose biography also tells us much about Vasari's own early career. Vasari's original and soaring vision, and his acute aesthetic judgments, have made him one of the most influential art historians of all time. In his introduction, George Bull discusses Vasari's life and works, and his development as an artist. This edition includes notes on the artists by Peter Murray and suggestions for further reading.
- Contents:
- Vol. 1: Vasari's lives
- Vasari and the Renaissance artist
- Translator's note
- Pref. to the lives
- Cimabue
- Giotto
- Pref to part two
- Uccello
- Ghiberti
- Masaccio
- Brunelleschi
- Donatello
- Piero della Francesca
- Fra Angelico
- Alberti
- Fra Filippo Lippi
- Botticelli
- Verrocchio
- Mantegna
- Pref to part three
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Giorgione
- Correggio
- Raphael
- Michelangelo
- Titian.
- Vol. 2: Nicola and Giovanni Pisano
- Duccio di Buoninsegna
- Luca della Robbia
- Michelozzo Michelozzi
- Andrea del Castagno and Domenico Veneziano
- Jacopo, Giovanni, and Gentile Bellini
- Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo
- Bernardino Pintoricchio
- Pietro Perugino
- Piero di Cosimo
- Fra Bartolommeo of San Marco
- Andrea del Sarto
- Giovanni Battista Rosso
- Francesco Mazzuoli (Parmigianino)
- Jacopo Palma and Lorenzo Lotto
- Giulio Romano
- Francesco Salviati
- Jacopo Sansovino.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Vite de' più eccellenti architetti, pittori et scultori italiani.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 imperfect: v.2 only.
- ISBN:
- 0140445005 v.1
- 9780140445008 v.1
- 0140444602 v.2
- 9780140444605 v.2
- OCLC:
- 17720416
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