The lives of the artists
a selection
by Giorgio Vasari and Peter Murray
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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.
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History, Artists, Biography, Italian Artists, Art, Italian Art, Renaissance Art, Medieval Artists, Painters, Gothic Art, Italy, Portraits, Architects, Italian Painters, Sculptors, Artistas, Biografía, Arte renacentista, Medieval Art, Arte italiano, Artists, italy, Artists, biography, Art, renaissance, Renaissance Painting, Artistes, Biographies, Art italien, Art gothique, Art de la Renaissance, Ouvrages avant 1600, Art, italian, Correspondence, Queens, Love-letters, English Love poetry, Vasari, giorgio, 1511-1574, Early works to 1800, Art del Renaixement, Schilderkunst, Middeleeuwen, Art, medieval, Art, gothic, Mannerism (Art)Showing 11 featured editions. View all 91 editions?
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Lives of the artists: a selection
1987, Penguin Books, Penguin Classics
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The lives of the artists: a selection
1971, Penguin Books
in English
- Reprinted with minor revisions.
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Vasari's Lives of the Artists
October 30, 1967, Touchstone
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in English
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Vasari's Lives of the artists: biographies of the most eminent architects, painters, and sculptors of Italy.
1946, Simon and Schuster
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Vasari's Lives of the artists: biographies of the most eminent architects, painters, and sculptors of Italy
1946, Simon and Schuster
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Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors & architects
1912, Macmillan and co., ld. & The Medici society, ld.
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Lives of seventy of the most eminent painters, sculptors and architects
1896, C. Scribner's sons
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