Vasari, Giorgio
Summary: 120 full-color plates and 127 black and white illustrations. An extensive biography about the Italian Renaissance artists.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beaux Arts Editions 1986
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Summary: Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) was a man of many talents—a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar—but he is best known for Lives of the Artists, the classic account that singlehandedly invented the genre of artistic biography and established the canon of Italian Renaissance art. Before Vasari’s extraordinary book, art was considered a technical skill rather than an intellectual pursuit,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017