The great masters : Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian / Edited by Michael Sonino
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Beaux Arts Edtions , 1986Description: 388 p. : illus. ; 34 cmISBN:- 9780883633021
- Toller Cranston Collection
- REF 709.22 VAS
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Libro - Monografía | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | Consulta / Referencia | REF 709.22 VAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 019406 |
Index included
Introduction -- Translator's Preface -- Giotto -- Sandro Botticelli -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Raffaello da Urbino (Raphael) -- Michelagnol"o Buonarroti (Michelangelo) -- Tiziano da Cadore (Titian) -- Chronology -- Index
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
Translated from Italian to English
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