The Liv of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics)
by Giorgio Vasari
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Author: Giorgio VasariTranslator: Julia Conway Bondanella
Translator: Peter Bondanella
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-07-16
ISBN: 019283410X
Number of pages: 616
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Book Review: Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Artists Volume One
Summary: 5 Stars
A good introduction to Medieval, Renaissance, and Mannerist artists written by someone who lived around their time and had actual contact with some of the artists, as well as personal painting experience. He is, however, colored by his personal relationships with the artists, hyperbolic, and constrained by the Zeitgeist of the era. In exploring the relationships of artist and patron he is able to shed light on their social situation and the constant struggle of the elevation of the art of painting among the liberal arts. In English, some of the grandeur of his writing is lost, and it lacks the poetic ease of the Italian original. If you want a fuller version, I suggest (especially for bilingual speakers) a translation with the Italian original on the other side of the page.
Summary of The Liv of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics)
These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance," was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael. This new translation, specially commissioned for the World's Classics series, contains thirty-six of the most important lives and is fully annotated.General Books
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