<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 tradition. In painting, sculpture and architecture he created works that went beyond anything imagined before. The<em> David</em> - miraculously created, as Vasari describes, out of a piece of marble botched by another sculptor - the Sistine Ceiling, the Sistine <em>Last Judgement</em>, before which the Pope knelt in terrified prayer when it was first unveiled: these works have lost none of their awe-inspiring power. Michelangelo''s impact was immediate, and he achieved a level of fame and influence that was unprecedented. It is not surprising, therefore, that the painter Giorgio Vasari should have made him the culmination of his Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects, the first true work of art history. Vasari was a close colleagu
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Recounts the exciting rediscovery of Giorgio Vasari's painting Allegory of Patience, painted in 1551-52 for the Bishop of Arezzo.
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A new translation of Giorgio Vasari's Life of Raphael, fully illustrated, and edited by leading scholars.
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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...
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