Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1

By Vasari, Giogio

Book Id: WPLBN0002953608
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File Size: 250.93 MB
Reproduction Date: 2010

Title:	Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1
Author:	Vasari, Giogio
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, History, Biography
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1
Historic Publication Date:	1912
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Vasari, B. G. (1912). Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, as it was originally known in Italian, 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 the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art, and one of the founding texts in art history. Vasari's work has been described as by far the most influential single text for the history of Renaissance art and the most important work of Renaissance biography of artists. Its influence is situated mainly in three domains: as an example for contemporary and later biographers and art historians, as a defining factor in the view on the Renaissance and the role of Florence and Rome in it, and as a major source of information on the lives and works of early Italian artists.

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
History, Biography, Art