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Lives of Leonardo (Paperback)
Giorgio Vasari, Matteo Bandello, Paolo Giovio, Sabba Castiglione; Edited by Charles Robertson
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For many people the greatest artist, and the quintessential
Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter,
architect, theatre designer, engineer, sculptor, anatomist,
geometer, naturalist, poet and musician. His Last Supper in Milan
has been called the greatest painting in Western art. Illegitimate,
left-handed and homosexual, Leonardo never made a straightforward
career. But from his earliest apprenticeship with the Florentine
painter and sculptor Andrea Verrochio, his astonishing gifts were
recognised. His life led him from Florence to militaristic Milan
and back, to Rome and eventually to France, where he died in the
arms of the King, Francis I. As one of the greatest exponents of
painting of his time, Leonardo was celebrated by his fellow
Florentine Vasari (who was nevertheless responsible for covering
over the great fresco of the Battle of Anghiari with his own
painting). Vasari's carefully researched life of Leonardo remains
one of the main sources of our knowledge, and is printed here
together with the three other early biographies, and the major
account by his French editor Du Fresne. Personal reminiscences by
the novelist Bandello, and humanist Saba di Castiglione, round out
the picture, and for the first time the extremely revealing
imagined dialogue between Leonardo and the Greek sculptor Phidias,
by the painter and theorist Lomazzo, is published in English. An
introduction by the scholar Charles Robertson places these writings
and the career of Leonardo in context. Approximately 50 pages of
colour illustrations, including the major paintings and many of the
astonishing drawings, give a rich overview of Leonardo's work and
mind.
'Never was a painter more nobly joyous, never did an artist take a
greater delight in life, seeing it all as a kind of breezy festival
and feeling it through the medium of perpetual success...He was the
happiest of painters.' Henry James on Veronese, 1909 Collected here
for the first time, these fascinating early biographies (one of
which has never been translated before) describe and celebrate the
astonishingly fertile art of Paolo Veronese. Most of what we know
about Veronese comes from these three essays. 'I have known this
Paolino and I have seen his beautiful works. He deserves to have a
great volume written in praise of him, for his pictures prove that
he is second to no other painter', wrote Veronese's contemporary
Annibale Carracci in the margins to his copy of Vasari's writings,
continuing 'and this fool passes over him in four lines. And just
because he was not Florentine.' It was indeed a measure of his fame
that Vasari, whose Life of Veronese is reprinted here, should have
overcome his pro-Tuscan prejudices to write about his great
Venetian contemporary; and he was followed in this by another
Florentine, the theorist Raffaele Borghini. But the most striking
record of the impact of Veronese's art on his countrymen is the
extensive biography by his fellow Venetian, Carlo Ridolfi. Entirely
original in the seriousness and passion with which he approached
his subject, Ridolfi permanently changed the course of writing
about art. This is the first translation of his work into English.
Translated and introduced by Xavier F. Salomon, curator of
Veronese: Renaissance Magnificence at the National Gallery, London.
Fifty pages of colour illustrations cover the span of Veronese's
breath-taking career.
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Lives of Tintoretto (Paperback)
Giorgio Vasari, Pietro Aretino, Carlo Ridolfi, Andrea Calmo, Veronica Franco, …
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The most exhilarating painter of the Renaissance and arguably of
the whole of western art, Tintoretto was known as Il Furioso
because of the attack and energy of his style. His vaunting
ambition is recorded in the inscription he placed in his studio: l
disegno di Michelangelo ed il colorito di Tiziano ("Michelangelo's
drawing and Titian's colour"). The Florentines Vasari and Borghini,
and the Venetians Ridolfi and Boschini wrote the earliest
biographies of the artist. The four accounts are related to each
other and form the backbone of the critical success of Tintoretto.
Borghini is the first one to give some information about Marietta
Tintoretto, also an artist, and Ridolfi is the richest in anecdotes
about the artist's life and personality - including the one about
the inscription which he may, however, have invented. Boschini, a
witty Venetian nationalist, wrote his account in dialect verse. El
Greco, whose marginal notes to Vasari are included for the first
time in English, Calmo and Franco knew Tintoretto personally and
their writings give a real flavour of this complicated man.
Unavailable in any form for many years, these biographies have been
newly edited for this edition. They are introduced by the scholar
Carlo Corsato, who places each in its artistic and literary
context. Approximately 50 pages of colour illustrations cover the
full range of Tintoretto's astonishing output.
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Lives of Titian (Paperback)
Giorgio Vasari, Sperone Speroni, Pietro Aretino, Ludovico Dolce, Raffaele Borghini, …
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Titian (c. 1488-1576) was recognised very early on as the leading
painter of his generation in Venice. Starting in the studio of the
aged Giovanni Bellini, Titian, with his contemporary Giorgione,
almost immediately started to expand the range of what was possible
in painting, converting Bellini's statuesque style into something
far more impressionistic and romantic. This restless spirit of
innovation and improvisation never left him, and during his long
life he experimented with a number of different styles, the
brushwork of his last great paintings showing a mysterious poetry
that has never been equalled. This volume in the series Lives of
the Artists collects the major writings about Titian by his
contemporaries and near contemporaries. The centrepiece is the
biography by Vasari, who as a Florentine found Titian's very
Venetian sense of colour and transient forms a challenge to his
concept of art as design. The poet Ariosto and sparkling letter
writer Aretino had a more nuanced view of their friend's work, and
Priscianese's account of a dinner party with Titian, and the
contributions by Speroni and Dolce, and the slightly later Tuscan
critic Borghini, round out the picture of this hugely thoughtful,
intellectual artist, whose paintings remain some of the most
sensual and affecting in all of Western art. Mostly unavailable in
any form for many years, these writings have been newly edited for
this edition. They are introduced by the scholar Carlo Corsato, who
places each in its artistic and literary context. Approximately 50
pages of colour illustrations cover the full range of Titian's
great oeuvre.
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Lives of Giovanni Bellini (Paperback)
Giorgio Vasari, Carlo Ridolfi, Marco Boschini, Isabella D'Este, Davide Gasparotto
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Scion of an artistic dynasty, Giovanni Bellini is arguably the
greatest Venetian painter of the early Renaissance. His astonishing
naturalism revolutionised altarpiece painting and is still a source
of wonder, as any visit to Frari in Venice will confirm. Most of
what we know about this great artist comes from the earliest
biographies by Vasari and Ridolfi printed here - the Ridolfi never
before translated into English. A different and very personal
insight is given by extensive correspondence with Bellini's great
but neglected patron Isabella d'Este.
Raphael (1483-1520) was for centuries considered the greatest
artist who ever lived. Much of what we know about him comes from
this biography, written by the Florentine painter Giorgio Vasari
and first published in 1550. Vasari's Lives of the Painters was the
first attempt to write a systematic history of Italian art. The
Life of Raphael is a key text not only for the appreciation of
Raphael's own art - whose development and chronology Vasari
describes in detail, together with the spectacular social career of
the first painter to be mooted, it was claimed, as a Cardinal - but
also for its unprecedented attention to theoretical issues.
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. 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
sculptor - the Sistine Ceiling, the Sistine Last Judgement, before
which the Pope knelt in terrified prayer when it was first
unveiled: these works have lost none of their awe-inspiring power.
Michelangelo's impact was immediate, and he achieved a level of
fame and influence that was unprecedented. It is not surprising,
therefore, that the painter Giorgio Vasari should have made him the
culmination of his Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects,
the first true work of art history. Vasari was a close colleague as
well as a fellow-artist and fellow- Florentine. The biography
printed here, from Vasari's much improved second edition, draws a
picture of Michelangelo the man and the artist that has an
immediacy and an authority that have not been surpassed. The
introduction by David Hemsoll situates this great work in the
context of 16th century Italian art.
Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors
and Architects (1550 and 1568) 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. This illustrated standalone edition of Vasari's
Life of Raphael offers a new translation of this rich and
remarkable 'Life', elegantly rendering Vasari's literary text in
modern terms. A work of authoritative skill and precision, the
translation preserves Vasari's compelling narrative, while
beautifully reproduced illustrations bring it newly to life.
Editors Paul Joannides and Rick Scorza bring together the original
and expanded Italian editions of 1550 and 1568, with succinct
commentary drawing upon their expert knowledge of Raphael's career.
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.
'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that
it seemed divine rather than human.' Often called "the first art
historian", Vasari writes with delight on the lives of Leonardo and
other celebrated Renaissance artists . Introducing Little Black
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Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574). Vasari's works available in Penguin
Classics are Lives of the Artists Volume I and Volume II.
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The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
Giorgio Vasari; Translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella
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These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been
considered among the most important of contemporary sources on
Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term
"Renaissance," was the first to outline the influential theory of
Renaissance art that traces a progression through Giotto,
Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da
Vinci, and Raphael.
This new translation, specially commissioned for the Oxford World's
Classics series, contains thirty-six of the most important lives.
Fully annotated and with a brand new package, Lives of the Artists
is an invaluable classic to add to your collection.
About the Series For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
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bibliographies for further study, and much more.
‘In this painting of Leonardo’s there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human’ Giorgio Vasari (1511–74) was an accomplished painter and architect, but it is for his illuminating biographies that he is best remembered. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, he traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first drawings on stone; Donatello gazing at Brunelleschi’s crucifix; and Michelangelo’s painstaking work on the Sistine Chapel, harassed by the impatient Pope Julius II. The Lives also convey much about Vasari himself and his outstanding abilities as a critic inspired by his passion for art. George Bull’s introduction discusses Vasari’s life and influences, and the political and historical background of sixteenth-century Florence. This volume also includes notes on the artists by Peter Murray and a list for further reading.
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