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Lives of the Artists, Vol. 1
- Author
- Giorgio Vasari
- Narrator
- Wanda McCaddon
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 1 January 2007
- Run Time
- 18 hours 17 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Georgio Vasari’s original vision of the arts was to see the artist as divinely inspired. This historical work describes the lives of forty-five artists, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian, with striking immediacy conveyed through character sketches, anecdotes, and detailed recording of conversations. Despite some factual inaccuracies, Michelangelo praised Vasari for endowing artists with immortality. Vasari’s shrewd judgments and his precise pinpointing of the emotions aroused by individual works of art bear out his prediction that he would have a worldwide influence on the history of art.
Volume One covers the following artists: Cimabue, Giotto, Uccello, Ghiberti, Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Alberti, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Verrocchio, Mantegna, Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgione, Correggio, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian, as well as additional notes on the artists.
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“The single most important contemporary source of information on hundreds of artists of the Italian Renaissance period.”
Irish Independent
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Details
- Author
- Giorgio Vasari
- Narrator
- Wanda McCaddon
- Duration
- 18 hours 17 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 January 2007
- ISBN
- 9781483069623
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Biography: general, History of art, Individual artists, art monographs, Biography: general, Individual artists, art monographs, Individual architects and architectural firms, Individual photographers
Synopsis
Georgio Vasari’s original vision of the arts was to see the artist as divinely inspired. This historical work describes the lives of forty-five artists, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian, with striking immediacy conveyed through character sketches, anecdotes, and detailed recording of conversations. Despite some factual inaccuracies, Michelangelo praised Vasari for endowing artists with immortality. Vasari’s shrewd judgments and his precise pinpointing of the emotions aroused by individual works of art bear out his prediction that he would have a worldwide influence on the history of art.Volume One covers the following artists: Cimabue, Giotto, Uccello, Ghiberti, Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Alberti, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Verrocchio, Mantegna, Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgione, Correggio, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian, as well as additional notes on the artists.
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