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    Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 3 (Unabridged)

    by Giorgio Vasari ...
    Narrated by Sandra Whiting, Helene Binion, Malcom Chandler ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 38 min

    In the third volume of his groundbreaking work, "Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects," Giorgio Vasari delves into the lives and works of some of the most influential artists of the Italian Renaissance. From the enigmatic Leonardo da Vinci to the masterful Michelangelo, Vasari's vivid prose and meticulous research bring to life the personalities, struggles, and triumphs of ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Lives of the Artists

    by Giorgio Vasari ...
    Translated by George Bull ...
    Series Book 1 - Lives of the Artists
    Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first drawings on stone; Donatello gazing at Brunelleschi's crucifix; and Michelangelo's painstaking work ... Read more

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  • The Lives of the Painters Sculptors Architects Volume 1

    by Giorgio Vasari ...
    The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects is a seminal work by Giorgio Vasari, an Italian painter, architect, and historian, regarded as one of the first biographies of artists. In Volume 1, Vasari chronicles the lives and works of major artists from the Italian Renaissance, offering insights into their creative processes, artistic achievements, and the cultural context in which they ... Read more

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  • Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects

    The first great history of Renaissance art, from Cimabue and Giotto to Botticelli and Donatello

    by Giorgio Vasari ...
    Translated by Gaston du C. de Vere ...
    The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", "some of the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art" and "the first important book on art history". The title ... Read more

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  • Leonardo da Vinci

    by Giorgio Vasari ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human.''The first art historian' explores genius and madness in Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists. ... Read more

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  • The Lives of the Artists

    by Giorgio Vasari ...
    Translated by Julia Conway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the period of youthful vigour, shaped by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and Masaccio, before ... Read more

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  • The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

    by Giorgio Vasari ...
    Translated by Gaston du C. de Vere ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographical writing, Vasari infused these literary portraits with a decidedly modern form of critical judgment. The result is a work that remains to this day the ... Read more

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  • Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, all ten volumes in a single file

    by Giorgio Vasari ...
    Biographies of artists of the Italian Renaissance. All ten volumes. Over 500 illustrations, many in color. VOLUME 1 - CIMABUE TO AGNOLO GADDI, VOLUME 2 - BERNA TO MICHELOZZO MICHELOZZI, VOLUME 3 - FILARETE AND SIMONE TO MANTEGNA, VOLUME 4 - FILIPPINO LIPPI TO DOMENICO PULIGO, VOLUME 5 - ANDREA DA FIESOLE TO LORENZO LOTTO, , VOLUME 6 - FRA GIOCONDO TO NICCOLO SOGGI, VOLUME 7 - TRIBOLO TO IL SODOMA, ... Read more

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    How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World

    by Paul Robert Walker ...
    "Walker here pairs off proto-architect Filippo Brunelleschi and doormaker Lorenzo Ghiberti in an often engaging version of Quattrocento Smackdown." — Library JournalJoining the bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, this is a lively and intriguing tale of two artists whose competitive spirit brought to life one of the world's most magnificent structures and ignited the Renaissance.The dome ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici

    by Christopher Hibbert ...
    At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. This enthralling book charts the family’s huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence. Beginning in the early ... Read more

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  • Eichmann in Jerusalem

    A Report on the Banality of Evil

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of TotalitarianismSparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after ... Read more

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  • The Notebooks of Leonardo Davinci

    by Leonardo Davinci ...
    The Notebooks of Leonardo Davinci. Widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. Leonardo Davinci was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, ... Read more

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