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    Lives of the Artists

    Volume 1

    Author Giorgio Vasari
    Introduction by George Bull
    Translated by George Bull
    Paperback
    $17.00 US
    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    On sale Mar 01, 1988 | 480 Pages | 9780140445008
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    In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect. 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 plus his acute aesthetic judgements have made him one of the most influential art historians of all time.

    Introduction
    Vasari's Lives
    Vasari and the Renaissance Artist
    Translator's Note
    The Lives
    Preface to the Lives
    Cimabue
    Giotto

    Preface to Part Two
    Uccello
    Ghiberti
    Masaccio
    Brunelleschi
    Donatello
    Piero della Francesca
    Fra Angelico
    Alberti
    Fra Filippo Lippi
    Botticelli
    Verrocchio
    Mantegna

    Preface to Part Three
    Leonardo da Vinci
    Giorgione
    Correggio
    Raphael
    Michelangelo
    Titian
    Notes on the Artists
    Further Reading

    Giorgio Vasari was born in 1511 at Arezzo in Tuscany. While still a boy he was introduced to Cardinal Silvio Passerini who put him to study in Florence with Michelangelo—who later became a close friend—then with Andrea del Sarto. He left Florence when his patron, Duke Alessandro, was assassinated, and wandered around Italy filling his notebooks with sketches; it was during this period that he conceived the idea of the Lives. By then, in his thirties, Vasari was a highly successful painter and when his Lives were published they were received enthusiastically. He returned to Florence in 1555 to serve Duke Cosimo who appointed him architect of the Palazzo Vecchio. After a grand tour of Italian towns he published the revised and enlarged edition of his Lives in 1568. Vasari spent the rest of his life in a glow of self-satisfaction and public recognition, and in 1571 he was knighted by Pope Pius V. He died in 1574. View titles by Giorgio Vasari

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    In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect. 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 plus his acute aesthetic judgements have made him one of the most influential art historians of all time.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Vasari's Lives
    Vasari and the Renaissance Artist
    Translator's Note
    The Lives
    Preface to the Lives
    Cimabue
    Giotto

    Preface to Part Two
    Uccello
    Ghiberti
    Masaccio
    Brunelleschi
    Donatello
    Piero della Francesca
    Fra Angelico
    Alberti
    Fra Filippo Lippi
    Botticelli
    Verrocchio
    Mantegna

    Preface to Part Three
    Leonardo da Vinci
    Giorgione
    Correggio
    Raphael
    Michelangelo
    Titian
    Notes on the Artists
    Further Reading

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    Giorgio Vasari was born in 1511 at Arezzo in Tuscany. While still a boy he was introduced to Cardinal Silvio Passerini who put him to study in Florence with Michelangelo—who later became a close friend—then with Andrea del Sarto. He left Florence when his patron, Duke Alessandro, was assassinated, and wandered around Italy filling his notebooks with sketches; it was during this period that he conceived the idea of the Lives. By then, in his thirties, Vasari was a highly successful painter and when his Lives were published they were received enthusiastically. He returned to Florence in 1555 to serve Duke Cosimo who appointed him architect of the Palazzo Vecchio. After a grand tour of Italian towns he published the revised and enlarged edition of his Lives in 1568. Vasari spent the rest of his life in a glow of self-satisfaction and public recognition, and in 1571 he was knighted by Pope Pius V. He died in 1574. View titles by Giorgio Vasari

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