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Leonardo Da Vinci: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #58 by Giorgio Vasari
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics
'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. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th bir ...Show more
Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael - Lives of the Renaissance Artists by Giorgio Vasari
Category: Art
Adapted from Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1568), this handsome slipcased book focuses on the three giants of Italian Renaissance art - Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Raphael. Vasari's combination of biographical anecdote and critical scrutiny remains ...Show more
Life of Michelangelo by GIORGIO VASARI
Category: Art and Design
One of the greatest biographies of an artist ever written, and a key document of the Renaissance. Written by a friend, fellow painter and fellow Florentine. Now in a fully illustrated edition. Michelangelo Buonarrotti (1475-1564) is perhaps the greatest artist in the entire Western tradition. In paintin ...Show more
Life of Raphael by GIORGIO VASARI
Category: Art and Design
Raphael (1483-1520) was for centuries considered the greatest artist who ever lived. Much of what we know about him comes from this biography, written by the Florentine painter Giorgio Vasari and first published in 1550. Vasari's Lives of the Painters was the first attempt to write a systematic history ...Show more
Lives Of The Artists (Volume I) by Giorgio Vasari
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first dra ...Show more
Lives of Giovanni Bellini by GIORGIO VASARI
Category: Art Literature
Scion of an artistic dynasty, Giovanni Bellini is arguably the greatest Venetian painter of the early Renaissance. His astonishing naturalism revolutionised altarpiece painting and is still a source of wonder, as any visit to Frari in Venice will confirm. Most of what we know about this great artist com ...Show more
Lives of Leonardo Da Vinci by Giorgio Vasari; Matteo Bandello; Paolo Giovio; Leonardo da Vinci; Sabba di Castiglione; Francesco Melzi; Isabella d'Este; Fra Pietro da Novellara; Antonio de Beatis
Category: Art and Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
A new title in the successful Lives of the Artists series, which offers illuminating, and often intimate, accounts of iconic artists as viewed by their contemporaries.Coinciding with the five hundredth anniversary of the death of Leonardo (1452-1519), Lives of Leonardo da Vinci brings together important ...Show more
Lives of Leonardo da Vinci by GIORGIO VASARI
Category: Art and Design
For many people the greatest artist, and the quintessential Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter, architect, theatre designer, engineer, sculptor, anatomist, geometer, naturalist, poet and musician. His Last Supper in Milan has been called the greatest painting in Western art. Il ...Show more
Lives of Tintoretto by GIORGIO VASARI
Category: Art Literature
The most exhilarating painter of the Renaissance and arguably of the whole of western art, Tintoretto was known as Il Furioso because of the attack and energy of his style. His vaunting ambition is recorded in the inscription he placed in his studio: il disegno di Michelangelo ed il colorito di Tiziano ...Show more
Lives of Titian by GIORGIO VASARI
Category: Art Literature
Titian (c. 1488-1576) was recognised very early on as the leading painter of his generation in Venice. Starting in the studio of the aged Giovanni Bellini, Titian, with his contemporary Giorgione, almost immediately started to expand the range of what was possible in painting, converting Bellini's statu ...Show more
Lives of Veronese by GIORGIO VASARI
Category: Art Literature | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Never was a painter more nobly joyous, never did an artist take a greater delight in life, seeing it all as a kind of breezy festival and feeling it through the medium of perpetual success He was the happiest of painters - Henry James on Veronese, 1909. Collected here for the first time, these fascinati ...Show more