The Lives of the Artists

by Giorgio Vasari

Book Overview

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 progression through Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael. This new translation, specially commisioned for the World's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019281754X
• ISBN13: 9780192817549
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 614 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.6" x 7.3"