Description
| Product ID: | 9780140445008 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Lives of the Artists |
| Title: | Lives of the Artists |
| Authors: | Author: Giorgio Vasari, George Bull |
| Page Count: | 480 |
| Subjects: | Paintings and painting, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, Individual artists, art monographs, Italy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, this work traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. It presents great men, and their immortal works. It depicts Michelangelo's painstaking work on the Sistine Chapel, harassed by the impatient Pope Julius II. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1987-08-27 |
