Author Last Name,
Author First Name,
Pages,
Binding,
Edition,
ISBN 10,
ISBN 13,
Condition,
Publisher,
Date Published,
Specifications
Author Last Name:
Vasari
Author First Name:
Giorgio
Pages:
480
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
Revised ed.
ISBN 10:
0140445005
ISBN 13:
9780140445008
Condition:
Used
Publisher:
National Geographic Books
Date Published:
3/1/1988
Genre:
Art and Art History
Description
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.
