The Life of Michelangelo
$26.95
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2018
Summary
One of the greatest biographies of an artist ever written, and a key document of the Renaissance. Written by a friend, fellow painter and fellow Florentine. Now in a fully illustrated edition. Michelangelo Buonarrotti (1475-1564) is perhaps the greatest artist in the entire Western tradition. In painting, sculpture and architecture he created works that went beyond anything imagined before. The David miraculously created, as Vasari describes, out of a piece of marble botched by another scu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781843681571 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1843681579 |
| Author: | Giorgio Vasari, David Hemsoll |
| Publisher: | Pallas Athene Publishers |
| Imprint: | Pallas Athene Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 258g |
| Dimensions: | 145mm x 114mm |
| Series: | Lives of the Artists |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“The London publishing house Pallas Athene has come up with the very welcome and worthwhile project of assembling English translations of early biographies of artists in an easily accessible publication.” - Historians of Netherlands Art Reviews
About The Author
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), painter, architect and intimateof the Medici, was a leading exponent of the later renaissancestyle sometimes called Mannerism, which was heavilyinfluenced by Michelangelo. His lasting monument, however,is undoubtedly the Lives of the most excellent Painters, Sculptorsand Architects, published in 1550 and in an enlarged edition in1568.
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