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The lives of the artists / Giorgio Vasari ; translated with an introduction and notes by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Oxford world's classics
- Standardized Title:
- Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architettori. English. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists--Italy--Biography.
- Artists.
- Art, Renaissance--Italy.
- Art, Renaissance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (624 p.)
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- Summary:
- Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the period of youthful vigour, shaped by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and Masaccio, before discussing the mature period of perfection, dominated by the titanic figures of Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Note on the Translation
- Select Bibliography
- A Chronology of Giorgio Vasari
- The Lives of the Artists : Part One
- Part Two
- Part Three
- Explanatory Notes.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Vasari, Giorgio. Lives of the Artists.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-156112-6
- OCLC:
- 714569716
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