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The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori), often simply known as The Lives (Italian: Le Vite), is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous ...
Feb 14, 2006 · 4.6 124 ratings. See all formats and editions. A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550.
Jul 18, 2022 · The lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors, and architects. by. Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574. Publication date. 2006. Topics. Artists -- Italy -- Biography, Art, Renaissance -- Italy, Art, Italian. Publisher. New York : Modern Library.
This is a 10-volume translation of Vasari's biographies of Italian artists, issued in London by Macmillan and the Medici Society between 1912 and 1915. The volumes of this edition are profusely illustrated with color and black and white plates.
Dec 21, 2023 · The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", "some of the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art" and ...
- Giorgio Vasari
Dec 18, 2007 · The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of...
Dec 4, 2015 · Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects,...
Spanning the period from the thirteenth century to Vasari’s own time, the Lives opens a window on the greatest personalities of the period, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Mantegna, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian.
- Giorgio Vasari
, 1568; Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, 1850–52, trans. of the 2nd ed.), which was dedicated to Cosimo de’ Medici. In it Vasari offers his own critical history of Western art through several prefaces and a lengthy series of artist biographies.
While the best and most industrious artists were labouring, by the light of Giotto and his followers, to give the world ensamples of such, power as the benignity of their stars and the varied character of their fantasies enabled them to command, and while desirous of imitating the perfection of Nature by the excellence of Art, they were ...
