The Lives of the Artists (Oxford Worlds Classics)

Giorgio Vasari

Publisher: OUP Oxford; Reissue edition (2008/8/14)

Series Title: Oxford World's Classics

平裝: 624 pages

Language: 英語

ISBN: 0199537194

EAN: 8601404388804

Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 2.5 x 12.7 cm

Item Weight: 440 g

內容簡介

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 the period of youthful vigour, shaped by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and Masaccio, before discussing the mature period of perfection, dominated by the titanic figures of Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. 

This specially commissioned translation contains thirty-six of the most important lives as well as an introduction and explanatory notes.