The Lives of the Artists
Giorgio Vasari
Translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella
August 2008
ISBN: 9780199537198
624 pages
Paperback
196x129mm
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Price: £9.99Description
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.
This specially commissioned translation contains thirty-six of the most important lives as well as an
introduction and explanatory notes.
About the Author(s)
Giorgio Vasari
Translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella, Associate Director, Indiana University Honors Division, and Peter Bondanella, Professor of Italian and Film Studies, Indiana UniversityReviews
`...a book which has come to be recognised as the single most important contemporary source of information on hundreds of artists of the Italian Renaissance period.' Irish Independent -
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