Giorgio Vasari

Lives of the Painters Boxed Set

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ISBN: 9781857157796
Author : Giorgio Vasari
Published: 2023
Publisher: Everyman
Number of pages: 2304
Format: Multiple-component retail product, slip-cased
Format: 218×142
Description
The painter and architect Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) was a pupil of Michaelangelo who worked mainly in Florence and Rome. He is famous today, however, as the author of LIVES OF THE PAINTERS, SCULPTORS AND ARCHITECTS, the work which effectively founded the study of art history and remains one of its greatest monuments. Vasari's distinctive blend of biography and criticism has exerted an immeasurable influence on all subsequent historians, but its value for contemporary readers consists as much in the liveliness and piquancy of the stories his book contains, and the vivid light it casts on the great masters of early Italian painting.

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