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Both paintings are lost today. Giorgio Vasari was also active as a writer. His main work is a collection of artists' biographies "The Lives of the Best Italian Architects, Painters and Sculptors from Cimabue to Today". Through this work he is considered today as one of the first art historians.
Mar 5, 2019 · A long-awaited new translation of Giorgio Vasari’s “Life of Leonardo da Vinci,” illustrated for the first time, that preserves Vasari’s compelling narrative and respects his meaning with a new precision. Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1550 and 1568) is a classic of cultural history.
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Missing the so-called High Renaissance period of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael by almost a generation, Giorgio di Antonio Vasari emerged around the 1530s as an important link in the development of Italian Renaissance art.
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Giorgio Vasari. 3.50. 628 ratings67 reviews. 'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human.'. Often called "the first art historian", Vasari writes with delight on the lives of Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists.
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Giorgio Vasari (/ v ə ˈ s ɑːr i /, also US: /-ˈ z ɑːr-, v ɑː ˈ z ɑːr i /, Italian: [ˈdʒordʒo vaˈzaːri]; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect, who is best known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of all art ...
Apr 16, 2015 · The life of Leonardo da Vinci. by. Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574; Horne, Herbert P. (Herbert Percy), 1864-1916. Publication date. 1903. Topics. Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519. Publisher. London, At the Sign of the Unicorn [Edinburgh, Printed by Morrison and Gibb, limited]
Coinciding with the five hundredth anniversary of the death of Leonardo (1452–1519), Lives of Leonardo da Vinci brings together important early biographies of the polymath by Giorgio...