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  The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)) (Paperback) By (author) Giorgio Vasari, Translated by Julia Conway Bondanella, Translated by Peter Bondanella

  

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  Short Description for The Lives of the ArtistsPacked 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 discu...
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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Published: 15 December 2008
  • Format: Paperback 624 pages
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  • Categories: Art History | Art History: Renaissance | Individual Artists, Art Monographs | Biography: Arts & Entertainment | Biography: Historical, Political & Military
  • ISBN 13: 9780199537198 ISBN 10: 0199537194
  • Sales rank: 27,638

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• 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.