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The Great Masters: Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian

Door Giorgio Vasari

Categorie
Schilderkunst
Boeknummer
#286274
Titel
The Great Masters: Giotto, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian
Auteur
Vasari, Giorgio
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Baux Arts Editions
Jaar van uitgave
1986
ISBN10
0883633027
ISBN13
9780883633021
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Originial giltlettered hardcover, dust jacket, (foldable) illustrations in colour and b/w.
Samenvatting
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 wit... (Lees verder)h their prodigious visions. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Pagina's
388
Conditie
Goed — Place, date and stamp on endpaper; red round book plate stamp on half title.
Prijs
€ 12,50

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