The great masters : Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian / Giorgio Vasari ; translation by Gaston Du C. de Vere ; edited by Michael Sonino.

Main entry:

Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574.

Title & Author:

The great masters : Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian / Giorgio Vasari ; translation by Gaston Du C. de Vere ; edited by Michael Sonino.

Publication:

Description:

388 pages, 120 plates: illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Introduction -- Translator's Preface -- Giotto -- Sandro Botticelli -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Raffaello da Urbino (Raphael) -- Michelagnol"o Buonarroti (Michelangelo) -- Tiziano da Cadore (Titian) -- Chronology -- Index

Summary:

"The standard Italian edition of Vasari runs to nine volumes and covers a host of artists great and small. The great masters presents six of the most detailed and luminous biographies -- the lives of Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian. With an ear for gossip, Vasari recorded for posterity the particulars of their lives while giving early expression to the world's lasting admiration for their genius. Vasari's texts are thoroughly annotated in this volume and are accompanied by a chronology that clearly relates the artists' lives to the historical events of their time. Moreover, this book is unique among publications of Vasari for its inclusion of works of art dicussed in the text. Consequently, The great masters lavishly reproduces most of the important works of painting, sculpture, drawing, architecture by these six artists in 120 full-color plates and 127 black-and-white illustrations. Twenty pages of color gatefolds give appropriate scope to such works as Botticelli's Primavera and Michelangelo's frescoes for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.--from the jacket

ISBN:

0883636867
9780883636862
0883633027
9780883633021

Subject:

Giotto, 1266?-1337.
Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510.
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.
Raphael, 1483-1520.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.
Titian, approximately 1488-1576.
Artists Italy Biography.
Art, Italian.
Art, Gothic Italy.
Art, Renaissance Italy.
Artistes Italie Biographies.
Art italien.
Art gothique Italie.
Art de la Renaissance Italie.
Art, Gothic
Art, Renaissance
Artists
Artistes Italie Ouvrages avant 1600.
Italy
1300-1560

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies

Added entries:

De Vere, Gaston du C., translator, writer of preface.
Sonino, Michael, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 11276
Call No.: ID:87-B2878
Status: Available

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