Vasari Giorgio:
The Lives Of The Artists

Translator: Julia ConwayBondanella

Oxford University Press (United Kingdom), 2008
Paperback, 624 pages
Size: 196x129 mm
ISBN: 9780199537198
ISBN-10: 0199537194

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The Lives Of The Artists

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

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