Great Masters

by Giorgio Vasari

Book Overview

(Art) Folio (13.25 x 10.25"), hardcover, jacket, gray coth, 388 pages. New version of 1986 edition. With 120 full-color plates and 127 black-and-white illustrations. Six detailed and luminous... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517665603
• ISBN13: 9780517665602
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 6.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 10.4" x 13.2"

Customer Reviews

A unique volume! Amazing!

This is a giant coffee table book version of the famous biographical classic by Giorgio Vasari on the great master artists of the Renaissance called "The Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects", originally published in 1550. Since the standard Italian edition of Vasari's work runs to 9 volumes, this volume abridges the text and presents the biographes of the greatest luminaries -- Giotto, Botticelii, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian. This text is accompanied by lavish reproductions of the works of these artists that are discussed in Vasari's text. The text is also annotated to clarify historical and literary allusions.