Title: Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architettori
First published: 1759
Description: 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.
Subjects: History, Artists, Biography, Italian Artists, Art, Italian Art, Renaissance Art, Medieval Artists, Painters, Gothic Art, Italy, Portraits, Architects, Italian Painters, Sculptors, Artistas, Biografía, Arte renacentista, Medieval Art, Arte italiano, Artists, italy, Artists, biography, Art, renaissance, Renaissance Painting, Artistes, Biographies, Art italien, Art gothique, Art de la Renaissance, Ouvrages avant 1600, Art, italian, Correspondence, Queens, Love-letters, English Love poetry, Vasari, giorgio, 1511-1574, Early works to 1800, Art del Renaixement, Schilderkunst, Middeleeuwen, Art, medieval, Art, gothic, Mannerism (Art)
Places: Italy, Italia
People: Gentile da Fabriano (ca. 1370-1427), Pisanello (1395-ca. 1455)
LC classification: N6922 .V492