Great Masters: Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian (Library of great masters) - Hardcover

Vasari, Giorgio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0883633027 ISBN 13: 9780883633021

Publisher: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1986

Synopsis

Michelangelo often slept in his clothes. Leonardo loved and kept horses. Vasari's famous Lives of the Artists (1550), which helped to establish the reputations of many Renaissance masters, is readable today chiefly for its lively gossip. From his multi-volume opus, six bios are reprinted here: the lives of Giotto, Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and Titian. Although de Vere's 1912 text may not be a translation for our time, it is serviceable enough despite its antiquated flavor. Interwoven with the narratives are superb color reproductions of little-known and familiar works by each artist, pictures by their contemporaries, color gatefolds and marginal annotations. This sumptuous, oversized album gives the reader a sense of how these Renaissance geniuses burst upon the world with their prodigious visions. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0883633027
• ISBN 13: 9780883633021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 388
• Editor: Sonino Michael