Author: Giorgio VasariPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Author: Giorgio VasariLives of the most eminent painters, sculptors, and architects: Translated from the Italian of Giorgio Vasari
Author: Giorgio VasariLives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects
Author: Giorgio VasariLives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
Author: Giorgio VasariLives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects: Tr. from the Italian of Giorgio Vasari. With Notes and Illustrations,chiefly Selected from Various Commentators. By Mrs. Jonathan Foster ...
Author: Giorgio VasariVasari on Technique
Author: Giorgio VasariPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486149161
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
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, and sculptors of his time. This is the first and only English translation of this important technical material (originally published in 1550 as an introduction to Vasari's Lives of the Artists). Vasari, as a practical craftsman, brings to his work as unusual understanding of the processes and materials he writes about, and conveys this knowledge to the reader in a style of the pleasantest and most readable kind. In the section on architecture, he describes the methods used in constructing rustic fountains and grottos; how Michelangelo developed new uses for architectural materials; the architectural uses of enriched plaster; the Renaissance view of Ionic, Doric, Gothic, and other types of architecture; and many similar topics. In the selection on sculpture, the reader will learn about the making of the model, completion of the statue, reliefs, bronze casting, modelled plaster work, sculpture in wood, and other processes. The final section, on painting, discusses aesthetics, perspective, foreshortening, how colors were blended, fresco painting, painting in tempera, oil painting, and much more. Scholars and historians of art have long used this book as the most detailed and valuable sourcebook of its time. But its full, readable discussions, combined with the sense of actuality and historical presence it contains, make it also perhaps the best possible description of the Renaissance artists in the heyday of their achievement.
The Lives of the Artists
Author: Giorgio VasariPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199537194
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the 13th century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo.
Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
Author: Giorgio VasariThe Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Author: Giorgio VasariPublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307432394
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
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 with a decidedly modern form of critical judgment. The result is a work that remains to this day the cornerstone of art historical scholarship. Spanning the period from the thirteenth century to Vasari’s own time, the Lives opens a window on the greatest personalities of the period, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Mantegna, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian. This Modern Library edition, abridged from the original text with notes drawn from earlier commentaries, as well as current research, reminds us why The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects is indispensable to any student interested in Renaissance art.
Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects -
Author: Giorgio VasariPublisher: Hesperides Press
ISBN: 1443724319
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.