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The lives of the artists / Giorgio Vasari ; translated with an introduction and notes by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella.

By:

Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574 [author.]

Contributor(s):

Bondanella, Julia Conaway [translator,, writer of supplementary textual content.]
Bondanella, Peter, 1943-2017 [translator,, writer of supplementary textual content.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: World's classicsPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991Description: xxiii, 586 pages ; 19 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

019281754X
9780192817549

Uniform titles:

Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architettori. English. Selections

Subject(s):

Artists -- Italy -- Biography

DDC classification:

709.22

LOC classification:

N6922 .V2213 1991

Summary: "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.

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Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	709.22 VAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A136087B

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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.

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