Lives of the Painters Boxed Set, Multiple-component retail product, slip-cased Book

Lives of the Painters Boxed Set Multiple-component retail product, slip-cased

Part of the Everyman's Library CLASSICS series

Multiple-component retail product, slip-cased

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The painter and architect Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) was a pupil of Michaelangelo who worked mainly in Florence and Rome.

He is famous today, however, as the author of LIVES OF THE PAINTERS, SCULPTORS AND ARCHITECTS, the work which effectively founded the study of art history and remains one of its greatest monuments.

Vasari's distinctive blend of biography and criticism has exerted an immeasurable influence on all subsequent historians, but its value for contemporary readers consists as much in the liveliness and piquancy of the stories his book contains, and the vivid light it casts on the great masters of early Italian painting.

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