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In writing his Lives, Vasari revealed a literary talent that matched, or even outshone, his abilities as an artist and architect.
Vasari's original vision of the arts, in which he sees the artist as divinely inspired, permeates this second volume as much as the first. Although at times inaccurate (prompting some dry remarks from Michelangelo), the Lives have a striking immediacy conveyed in the character sketches, anecdotes and detailed recordings of conversations.
Michelangelo praised the work for endowing artists with immortality. Vasari's shrewd judgements and his precise pinpointing of the emotions aroused by individual works of art bear out his prediction that Vasari would have a worldwide influence on the history of art. In this selection George Bull includes the lives of Perugino, Piero di Cosimo and Sansovino.
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Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) was an accomplished painter and architect, but it is for his illuminating biographies of artists that he is best remembered. George Bull translated widely from the Italian during his lifetime, and also wrote several books on the Renaissance period.
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HAVING discussed drawing and painting in the life of Cimabue, and architecture in that of Arnolfo di Lapo, in this life of Nicola and of Giovanni Pisano I shall deal with sculpture, and also with the very important buildings which they created. Read the first page
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HAVING discussed drawing and painting in the life of Cimabue, and architecture in that of Arnolfo di Lapo, in this life of Nicola and of Giovanni Pisano I shall deal with sculpture, and also with the very important buildings which they created. Read the first page
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Extremely readable, contemporary account of his peers,
This review is from: Penguin Classics #2 Lives Of The Artists (Paperback)
Vasari was a life-long correspondent of Michaelangelo, a contemporary of Leonardo, etc., so the accounts are written about his friends and comnpetitors, not 100+ years later, thru the prism of time. Yet this translation is in readable, 20th Century English.The chapters on Brunelleschi, Donato, etc. are lively, entertaining as well as instructive. MUST reading for anyone going to Italy, or to see works of the Florentine artists. (N.B. I am an engineer who never had a fine arts class, ever!)
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Extremely readable, contemporary account of his peers,
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This review is from: Penguin Classics #2 Lives Of The Artists (Paperback)
Vasari was a life-long correspondent of Michaelangelo, a contemporary of Leonardo, etc., so the accounts are written about his friends and comnpetitors, not 100+ years later, thru the prism of time. Yet this translation is in readable, 20th Century English.The chapters on Brunelleschi, Donato, etc. are lively, entertaining as well as instructive. MUST reading for anyone going to Italy, or to see works of the Florentine artists. (N.B. I am an engineer who never had a fine arts class, ever!) 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Artists Volume One,
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This review is from: Penguin Classics #1 Lives Of The Artists (Paperback)
A good introduction to Medieval, Renaissance, and Mannerist artists written by someone who lived around their time and had actual contact with some of the artists, as well as personal painting experience. He is, however, colored by his personal relationships with the artists, hyperbolic, and constrained by the Zeitgeist of the era. In exploring the relationships of artist and patron he is able to shed light on their social situation and the constant struggle of the elevation of the art of painting among the liberal arts. In English, some of the grandeur of his writing is lost, and it lacks the poetic ease of the Italian original. If you want a fuller version, I suggest (especially for bilingual speakers) a translation with the Italian original on the other side of the page.
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Lives of the Artists by Vasari,
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This review is from: Penguin Classics #1 Lives Of The Artists (Paperback)
Printed originally in Italian in the mid-sixteenth century, this book is considered not only the first history of art but also the first to put into words the process of growth and rebirth that characterized the Renaissance. Vasari writes about artists who were, for the most part, his contemporaries. He knew of their work and their lives, if not first-hand then by reputation or by association. The little stories he weaves into their lives give insight into each artist's personality. Though Vasari does try to make them all fit the mold of the Renaissance man, he shows us the chinks in the facade.
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