The Life of Raphael by Giorgio Vasari
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.
"The London publishing house Pallas Athene has come up with the very welcome and worthwhile project of assembling English translations of early biographies of artists in an easily accessible publication" - Historians of Netherlands Art Reviews
Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a Florentine architect and painter; in addition to his great Lives, his best-known works are the frescoes in the Palazzo Vecchio.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781843681564 |
| ISBN 10 | 1843681560 |
| Title | The Life of Raphael |
| Author | Giorgio Vasari |
| Series | Lives Of The Artists |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pallas Athene Publishers |
| Year published | 2018-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
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