Cover art for Lives of the Artists
Published
Penguin Classics, December 1987
ISBN
9780140444605
Format
Softcover, 400 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 2.3cm

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Lives of the Artists made Vasari one of the most influential art historians of all time, fusing literary and artistic ability

In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect.

Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to paint; Giulio Romano's startling painting of Jove striking down the giants; and his friend Francesco Salviati, whose biography also tells us much about Vasari's own early career. Vasari's original and soaring vision plus his acute aesthetic judgements have made him one of the most influential art historians of all time.

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