The lives of the artists /
Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574
The lives of the artists / Giorgio Vasari ; translated with an introduction and notes by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella. - xxiii, 586 pages ; 19 cm. - The World's classics . - World's classics. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages xviii-xx).
"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 progressionthrough Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael. This new translation, specially commisioned for the World's Classics series, contains thirty-six of the most important lives and is fully annotated."--Publisher description.
019281754X 9780192817549
90048810
Artists--Italy--Biography
N6922 / .V2213 1991
709.22
The lives of the artists / Giorgio Vasari ; translated with an introduction and notes by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella. - xxiii, 586 pages ; 19 cm. - The World's classics . - World's classics. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages xviii-xx).
"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 progressionthrough Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael. This new translation, specially commisioned for the World's Classics series, contains thirty-six of the most important lives and is fully annotated."--Publisher description.
019281754X 9780192817549
90048810
Artists--Italy--Biography
N6922 / .V2213 1991
709.22