The Life of Raphael (Lives of the Artists) - Softcover

Giorgio Vasari

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843681560 ISBN 13: 9781843681564

Publisher: Pallas Athene, 2024

Synopsis

• A key text not only for the appreciation of Raphael's own art, but also for its unprecedented attention to theoretical issues

Raphael (1483-1520) was for centuries considered the greatest artist who ever lived. Much of what we know about him comes from this biography, written by the Florentine painter Giorgio Vasari and first published in 1550. Vasari's Lives of the Painters was the first attempt to write a systematic history of Italian art. The Life of Raphael is a key text not only for the appreciation of Raphael's own art - whose development and chronology Vasari describes in detail, together with the spectacular social career of the first painter to be mooted, it was claimed, as a Cardinal - but also for its unprecedented attention to theoretical issues.

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About the Author

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a Florentine architect and painter; in addition to his great Lives, his best-known works are the frescoes in the Palazzo Vecchio.

From the Back Cover

Raphael (1483-1520) was for centuries considered the greatest artist who ever lived. Much of what we know about him comes from this biography, written by the Florentine painter Giorgio Vasari and first published in 1550. Vasari’s Lives of the Painters was the first attempt to write a systematic history of Italian art. The Life of Raphael is a key text not only for the appreciation of Raphael’s own art – whose development and chronology Vasari describes in detail, together with the spectacular social career

Edition details

• Publisher: Pallas Athene
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843681560
• ISBN 13: 9781843681564
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Jill Burke