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Great Masters: Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian [Hardcover]

Giorgio Vasari (Author), Michael Sonino (Editor), Gaston DuC. DeVere (Translator)

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Michelangelo often slept in his clothes. Leonardo loved and kept horses. Vasari's famous Lives of the Artists (1550), which helped to establish the reputations of many Renaissance masters, is readable today chiefly for its lively gossip. From his multi-volume opus, six bios are reprinted here: the lives of Giotto, Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and Titian. Although de Vere's 1912 text may not be a translation for our time, it is serviceable enough despite its antiquated flavor. Interwoven with the narratives are superb color reproductions of little-known and familiar works by each artist, pictures by their contemporaries, color gatefolds and marginal annotations. This sumptuous, oversized album gives the reader a sense of how these Renaissance geniuses burst upon the world with their prodigious visions.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A unique volume! Amazing! Dec 31 2002
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This is a giant coffee table book version of the famous biographical classic by Giorgio Vasari on the great master artists of the Renaissance called "The Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects", originally published in 1550. Since the standard Italian edition of Vasari's work runs to 9 volumes, this volume abridges the text and presents the biographes of the greatest luminaries -- Giotto, Botticelii, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian. This text is accompanied by lavish reproductions of the works of these artists that are discussed in Vasari's text. The text is also annotated to clarify historical and literary allusions.
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book by the first art historian May 22 2010
By Claudia Scott - Published on Amazon.com
I read the paperback by Vasari ( who does 'enhance' some of the myths we have come to know and love about these artists) but it is still great to have the artwork in this oversize volume. Well worth the price.

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