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Through character sketches and anecdotes the author depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to paint, and Giulio Romano's startling painting of Jove striking down the giants.

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Celebrates the lives and times of the great Renaissance artists of Italy, written by sixteenth-century artist and historian Giorgio Vasari.

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A new translation of Giorgio Vasaris Life of Raphael, fully illustrated, and edited by leading scholars.

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One of the principal resources for study of Italian Renaissance art and artists, Vasari's Lives offers colorful, detailed portraits of the era's most representative figures. This single-volume edition spotlights 8 prominent artists.

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A long-awaited new translation of Giorgio Vasari's "Life of Leonardo da Vinci," illustrated for the first time, that preserves Vasari's compelling narrative and respects his meaning with a new precision.

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Often called "the first art historian", the author writes with delight on the lives of Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists.

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Available as two separate volumes or as a boxed set, this 16th century work is a distinctive blend of biography and criticism which effectively founded the study of art history and remains one of its greatest monuments.

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The painter and architect Giorgio Vasari was a pupil of Michelangelo's who worked mainly in Florence and Rome, but he is more famous for his "Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects". This is the second volume of his work, translated by Gaston de Vere.