Giorgio Vasari Lives of the Artists (volume 1)

Informationen zum Autor Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) was an accomplished painter and architect, but it is for his illuminating biographies of artists that he is best remembered. George Bull translated widely from the Italian during his lifetime, and also wrote several books on the Renaissance period. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, this work traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. It presents great men, and their immortal works. It depicts Michelangelo's painstaking work on the Sistine Chapel, harassed by the impatient Pope Julius II. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: George Bull, Giorgio Vasari
• Assisted by: George Bull (Editor), George Bull (Translation), Bull George (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.08.1987
• EAN: 9780140445008
• ISBN: 978-0-14-044500-8
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 330 g
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics; Lives of the Artists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Collected biographies, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, Italy, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Painting & paintings, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, Paintings and painting, Medieval style