Michelangelo often slept in his clothes. Leonardo loved and kept horses. The BEST Italian Masters art book ever! Wonderful synopsis of the artists, great full page images. I can't put this book down.

Michelangelo often slept in his clothes. Vasari's famous Lives of the Artists (1550).

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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.

I took a Master's level Art History class on Giorgia Vasari at FSU a few years ago and this was the translation of the book that .

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16th-century book of artist biographies by Giorgio Vasari. Many have been abridgements due to the great length of the original. The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. The book starts with a dedication to Cosimo I de' Medici and a preface, and then starts with technical and background texts about architecture, sculpture, and painting.

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Vasari was important in the development of Italian Renaissance art and establishing an early art historical convention for future generations.

This is a nice coffee table book in good condition with only some wear to the dust cover. This page 388 book is approximately 13 1/4 inches tall and 10 inches wide and is packed full of color pictures. ISBN-10: 0883633027 ISBN-13: 9780883633021. Other Products from shebang (View All). The complete cheese cookbook Romance cheeses from Kraft.

Read various fiction books with us in our e-reader. Leighton took the incident of the picture from Vasari, who says : " Cimabue afterward painted the picture of the Virgin for the church of Santa Maria Novella, where it is suspended on high, between the chapel of the Rucellai family and that of Bardi, of Vernio.