About this title: 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.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780140445008ISBN:0140445005
Description: Acceptable. Minor water damage, does not effect readability. Well used. Still readable but not for the collector. All orders processed within 2 business days. Ships from Foxboro MA. read more
Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and creases. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Viking Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1966
ISBN-13:9780140445008ISBN:0140445005
Description: Good. The cover has a fold Mark and some cuts scuff shelfwear. Edgewear to the covers. Inside the text flows freely from beginning to end. Useful. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780140445008ISBN:0140445005
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. pp.478 Vasari's reflections on the state of contemporary Florentine art-its philosophy and its aims-which lend considerable historical and critical value to a work which has been tremendously popular since its first edition in 1550. clean tight copy slight foxing to text pages, covers show faint creases, top edge black smudge mark, back edge shows stain in one spot 7 pages in. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group, New York, New York
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780140445008ISBN:0140445005
Description: Used Very Good. Has clean text, a tight binding, and crisp pages. Has a name on outside edge of pages. Has light shelf and corner wear. read more
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 477 pp., biblio.; 21 cm. First published, 1550. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) was an accomplished painter and architect, but it is for his illuminating biographies that he is best remembered. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, he 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 ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780140445008ISBN:0140445005
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Viking Pr
Date Published: 1966-01-01
ISBN-13:9780140445008ISBN:0140445005
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780140445008ISBN:0140445005
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 480 pages. (480 pages) 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. bibliography part v. 1 (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780140445008ISBN:0140445005
Description: Acceptable. Former Library Book and/or book has writing/highlighting * If you can deal with the writing/markings, this is a great deal! * read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 1965
ISBN-13:9780140445008ISBN:0140445005
Description: Paperback. Used. Some Bent Pages; Minimal Writing; Frayed Corners/Bent Cover. SKU: 21170857 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9780140445008 Used. Some Bent Pages; Minimal Writing; Frayed Corners/Bent Cover. SKU: 21170857 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 1965
ISBN-13:9780140445008ISBN:0140445005
Description: Good. Paperback. Used. Some Writing/Highlighting; Slight Staining; Minimal Bent Pages; Bent Cover. SKU: 23431805 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9780140445008. read more
"Vasari, a painter and architect himself, was also the first italian art historian with this book, spanning the lives of renaissance masters from the 13th-16th centuries. He is biased to Florentine and other Italians, and fabricates threads throughout the book with little attention to exact dates. It should be supplemented with modern research, but his gossipy quips are undoubtedly entertaining."
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