TY - BOOK AU - Vasari,Giorgio AU - Bondanella,Julia Conaway AU - Bondanella,Peter TI - The lives of the artists T2 - The World's classics SN - 019281754X AV - N6922 .V2213 1991 U1 - 709.22 PY - 1991/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Artists KW - Italy KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages xviii-xx) N2 - "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 ER -