Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo And The Allegory Of Patience Av Carlo Falciani

<p>One of the greatest biographies of an artist ever written, and a key document of the Renaissance. Written by a friend, fellow painter and fellow Florentine. Michelangelo Buonarrotti (1475-1564) is perhaps the greatest artist in the entire Western...

<p><em>"Never was a painter more nobly joyous, never did an artist take a greater delight in life, seeing it all as a kind of breezy festival and feeling it through the medium of perpetual success... He was the happiest of painters."</em>...

Portraits, an inherently personal subject, provide an engaging entry point to an exploration of the politics, patronage, and power in Renaissance Florence

I <em>Kunstnernes liv</em> møter du malere, skulptører og arkitekter fra den italienske renessansen. Maleren Giorgio Vasari beskriver livene og verkene til kunstnere han selv kjente og deres forgjengere. Boken, som kom ut første...