Lives of the Artists: A Selection (Biography) [Abridged, Audiobook] [Audio CD]

Giorgio Vasari (Author), Neville Jason (Narrator)

Book Description

Series: Biography | Publication Date: September 2002

This recording features a selection of extracts from "Lives of the Artists", which are still the principal source books on 15th century Italian painters today, 500 years after they were written. Artists featured include: Giotto, Botticelli, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci.

Editorial Reviews

Review

`...a book which has come to be recognised as the single most important contemporary source of information on hundreds of artists of the Italian Renaissance period.' --Irish Independent --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

About the Author

GIORGIO VASARI (1511-1574), born in Tuscany, studied in Florence with Michelangelo while he was still a boy. When his patron, Duke Alessandro, was assassinated, Vasari wandered round Italy filling his notebooks with sketches; during this period, he conceived the idea of the Lives. By his thirties, Vasari was a highly successful painter; when his Lives were published they were received enthusiastically. He returned to Florence in 1555, where he was appointed architect of the Palazzo Vecchio. After a grand tour of Italian towns he published the revised and enlarged edition of his Lives in 1568. Vasari was knighted by Pope Pius V in 1571. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks; Abridged edition (September 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9626342552
• ISBN-13: 978-9626342558
• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 4.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,896,032 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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