Giorgio Vasari fue un pintor y arquitecto italiano, reconocido por sus famosas biografías de artistas italianos. Sus escritos ofrecen una visión invaluable de las vidas y obras de los creadores del período renacentista. El estilo de escritura de Vasari es a la vez informativo y atractivo, lo que permite a los lectores vislumbrar el mundo artístico de su época. Su obra sigue siendo una piedra angular del estudio del arte renacentista italiano.
Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511-Florencia, 1574) se cuenta, por su pluma, no por su pincel, entre los máximos exponentes del Cinquecento. "Las vidas", publicadas en Florencia en 1550 por el editor ducal Lorenzo Torrentino, conforman una indiscutible obra maestra y fuente escrita imprescindible para quien desee un acercamiento
First published in 1550, this classic work remains one of the most important sources of information about Italian Renaissance art. Written by artist and historian Giorgio Vasari, this book offers biographical sketches of some of the most famous artists of the era, as well as insights into the political and cultural context in which they worked.
120 full-color plates and 127 black and white illustrations. An extensive biography about the Italian Renaissance artists.
Born Jacopo Comin, Tintoretto (ca. 1519–1594) was one of the great painters of the late Renaissance. This book presents the first biographies of Tintoretto, by Giorgio Vasari and Carlo Ridolfi, as well as accounts from individuals who knew the artist personally. This volume also includes a translation of the marginal notes El Greco wrote in his copy of Vasari’s Life of Tintoretto , which have never before been published.
A new translation of Giorgio Vasari’s Life of Raphael, fully illustrated, that presents Vasari’s appealing narrative with new precision. Giorgio Vasari’s The Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, written in 1550 and 1568, is a classic text of cultural history. This monumental assembly of artists’ lives from Giotto to Michelangelo paints a vivid picture of the progression of art in the hands of individual masters. This illustrated stand-alone edition of Vasari’s Life of Raphael offers a new translation of this rich and remarkable life, elegantly rendering Vasari’s literary text in modern terms. A work of authoritative skill and precision, this new translation preserves Vasari’s exciting narrative, alongside beautifully reproduced color illustrations. Editors Paul Joannides and Rick Scorza bring together the original and expanded Italian editions from 1550 and 1568 with succinct commentary drawing upon their expert knowledge of Raphael’s career. This fascinating and accessible read is published in the five hundredth anniversary year of Raphael’s death.
Titian was recognised very early on as the leading painter of his generation in Venice. Starting in the studio of the aged Giovanni Bellini, Titian, with his contemporary Giorgione, almost immediately started to expand the range of what was possible in painting.
Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first drawings on stone; Donatello gazing at Brunelleschi's crucifix; and Michelangelo's painstaking work on the Sistine Chapel, harassed by the impatient Pope Julius II. The Lives also convey much about Vasari himself and his outstanding abilities as a critic inspired by his passion for art.
'The first art historian' explores genius and madness in Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists.
