by Giorgio Vasari · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192834102
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This edition of 'The Lives of the Artists' by Giorgio Vasari, part of the Oxford World's Classics collection, offers a deep insight into Italian Renaissance art. The book presents biographies of key artists from the quattrocento, including Cimabue, Giotto, Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Masaccio, Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. This special translation contains thirty-six of the most important lives, with an introduction and explanatory notes that enrich the reader's understanding of the development of Renaissance art.
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of Western art-historical writing, and still much cited in modern biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, although he is since regarded as including many factual errors, especially when covering artists from before he was born.
