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The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
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The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
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List price R360
Loot Price R246
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You Save R114 (32%)
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Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and
Architects (1550 and 1569) is a classic of cultural history. A
monumental assembly of artists' lives from Giotto to Michelangelo,
it paints a vivid picture of the progress of art in the hands of
individual masters. No Life is more vivid than that of Leonardo, a
near-contemporary of Vasari - not even Vasari's account of
Michelangelo, whom he knew and idolized. This beautiful edition
offers a literary translation that respects the 16th-century
Italian, transposing Vasari's vocabulary into its modern
equivalent. Martin Kemp is an eminent scholar, who has written on
the vocabulary of Renaissance writings on art, and has
co-translated Leonardo on Painting and Leonardo's Codex Leicester.
Translated in partnership with Lucy Russell, the text will be the
first to cover both the 1550 edition and the expanded version of
1568, and the first to integrate the texts of the two editions on
the page. Discreet endnotes will provide succinct comments in the
light of modern knowledge of Leonardo's career. Illustrated with
all the works of art discussed by Vasari and a selection of
Leonardo's studies of science and technology, this will be the
perfect accompaniment to Leonardo's 500th anniversary celebrations.
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