Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574.

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

New York : Hugh Lauter Levin Associates : Distributed by Macmillan Pub. Co., ©1986.

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

"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 particualars 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

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Artistes Italie Biographies.
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Artistes Italie Ouvrages avant 1600.
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De Vere, Gaston du C., translator.
Sonino, Michael, editor.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 11276
Cote: ID:87-B2878
Statut: Disponible