Lives of the Artists

by Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella

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 commissioned for the Oxford World's Classics series, contains thirty-six of the most important lives. Fully annotated and with a brand new package, Lives of the Artists is an invaluable classic to add to your collection.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192834102
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	05/28/1998
Series:	Oxford World's Classics Series
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	616
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 5.00(h) x 1.30(d)
Lexile:	1710L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Introduction		vii	(8)
Note on the Translation		xv	(3)
Select Bibliography		xviii	(3)
A Chronology of Giorgio Vasari		xxi
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Written by Giorgio Vasari, Painter and Architect of Arezzo, Revised and Extended by the Same, Along with Their Portraits, and with the Addition of the 'Lives' of Living Artists and Those Who Died Between the Years 1550 and 1567
PART ONE		3	(44)
Preface to the Lives		3	(4)
Cimabue		7	(8)
Giotto		15	(22)
Simone Martini		37	(6)
Duccio		43	(4)
PART TWO		47	(230)
Preface to Part Two		47	(12)
Jacopo della Quercia		59	(7)
Luca della Robbia		66	(8)
Paolo Uccello		74	(10)
Ghiberti		84	(17)
Masaccio		101	(9)
Filippo Brunelleschi		110	(37)
Donatello		147	(16)
Piero della Francesca		163	(6)
Fra Angelico		169	(9)
Leon Battista Alberti		178	(7)
Antonello da Messina		185	(6)
Fra Filippo Lippi		191	(10)
Andrea del Castagno and Domenico Veneziano		201	(9)
Domenico Ghirlandaio		210	(14)
Sandro Botticelli		224	(8)
Andrea del Verrocchio		232	(10)
Mantegna		242	(8)
Pinturicchio		250	(6)
Perugino		256	(12)
Luca Signorelli		268	(9)
PART THREE		277	(235)
Preface to Part Three		277	(7)
Leonardo da Vinci		284	(15)
Giorgione		299	(6)
Raphael		305	(34)
Properzia de' Rossi		339	(6)
Rosso Fiorentino		345	(14)
Giulio Romano		359	(18)
Domenico Beccafumi		377	(17)
Jacopo da Pontormo		394	(20)
Michelangelo		414	(75)
Titian		489	(20)
The Author: To Artists of the Art of Design		509	(3)
Explanatory Notes		512

Editorial Reviews

"A book which has come to be recognised as the single most important contemporary source of information on hundreds of artists of the Italian Renaissance period."--Irish Independent

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