The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari

Below are the sections of Vasari’s Lives. Volume 1 of The Lives of the Artists: A Selection /Giorgio Vasari, Giorgio Vasari Author Giorgio Vasari Translated by George Bull Contributor George Bull Edition illustrated. A painter himself, Vasari is better known for his collection of biographies of artists spanning the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries called the Lives of the Artists. The development of human faces due to the artist studying the subject rather than copying or imitating some else’s work is shown as time passed the sculptures and paintings on angels became a common topic between these artists. Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is arguably the single most important source of information for artists of the Italian Renaissance. Michelangelo Michelangelo, The Last Judgement, 1536-1541. Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, 1490. The book is an example for later and contemporary art historians and biographers as well as how the Italian Renaissance is portrayed and early artists from that time.Īndrea Del Verrocchio The Baptism of Christ, 1474-1475, Verrocchio and Leonardo.įilippo Brunelleschi Educators as God’s Shepherds, 1481-1482, Brunelleschi. This book is considered to be influential to the Renaissance era and is still looked at it that way today. The first edition was written and published in 1550 and was rewritten in 1568. In the first edition Venetian art was left out and the second edition of the book it was included with a biased view from the writer, Vasari. The book editions are important pieces of information on the Renaissance in Italy, despite being written with biases and “carelessly”. The book included many valuable technical methods associated with arts now and then. Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) was an accomplished painter and architect, but it is for his illuminating biographies that he is best remembered. The lives of artists was considered to be the Renaissance’s most influential writings and the first art history book. Giorgio Vasari is an Italian painter, architect and writer best known for biographies of Italian Renaissance artists.

The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari