Giorgio Vasari: 29 books

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...

Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori è una serie di biografie di artisti, scritta nel XVI secolo dal pittore e architetto aretino Giorgio Vasari. Spesso viene chiamato semplicemente Le Vite. Il trattato del Vasari fu pubblicato nel 1550 ed ebbe uno straordinario successo...

Giorgio Vasari (1511–1571) is well known for his celebrated work on the lives of the Renaissance artists. But not many people know that Vasari was a painter and architect as well as a biographer, and that he wrote one of the most valuable treatises on the technical methods of the painters, architects,...

Giorgio Vasari's biographical collection "The Lives of the Artists" is one of the most frequently cited art history books since the 16th century. It is also the first comprehensive book on art history ever created. In the work, Vasari brings together facts, knowledge, and sometimes gossip...

Giorgio Vasari's biographical collection "The Lives of the Artists" is one of the most frequently cited art history books since the 16th century. It is also the first comprehensive book on art history ever created. In the work, Vasari brings together facts, knowledge, and sometimes gossip...

Giorgio Vasari's biographical collection "The Lives of the Artists" is one of the most frequently cited art history books since the 16th century. It is also the first comprehensive book on art history ever created. In the work, Vasari brings together facts, knowledge, and sometimes gossip...

An instant success upon its publication in the mid-sixteenth century, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists remains one of the principal resources for study of the art and artists of the Italian Renaissance. Nothing of the scope and magnitude of this work had ever been conceived; the first complete...

«Michelangelo Bonarroti, Pittore Scultore et Architetto» di Giorgio Vasari» è estratto dalla voluminosa opera «Le vite de’ più eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani, da Cimabue insino a’ tempi nostri», dato alle stampe in Firenze nel 1550 per i tipi di Lorenzo Torrentino....

Vasari introduces himself sufficiently in his own prefaces and introduction; a translator need concern himself only with the system by which the Italian text can best be rendered in English. The style of that text is sometimes laboured and pompous; it is often ungrammatical. But the narrative is generally...

11 black-and-white illustrations. Volume 10 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "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 Eminent Painters,...

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. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographical writing, Vasari infused these literary portraits...

Nel 1550 presso l'editore Torrentino a Firenze uscì la prima edizione delle Vite de' più eccellenti architetti, pittori e scultori italiani da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri di Giorgio Vasari. Quest'opera, di vastissime dimensioni, costituisce ancora oggi un documento di fondamentale importanza...

Le vite de’ più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori è una serie di biografie di artisti, scritta nel XVI secolo dal pittore e architetto aretino Giorgio Vasari. Spesso viene chiamato semplicemente Le Vite. Il trattato del Vasari fu pubblicato nel 1550 da Torrentini ed ebbe uno straordinario...

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers...