An instant success upon its publication in the mid-16th century, Giorgio Vasari\'s Lives of the Artists remains one of the principal resources for study of the art and artists of the Italian Renaissance.
Students, teachers, and art enthusiasts will find this convenient edition an indispensable resource..
It also includes an introduction, notes, and glossary; as well as woodcut portraits of each artist by Vasari himself.
This single-volume edition of selections from Vasari\'s immense work features eight of the book\'s most noteworthy Artists: Giotto, Masaccio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian.
The Lives\' colorful and detailed portraits of the most representative figures of Italian painting and sculpture trace the flowering of the Renaissance across three centuries.
Nothing of the scope and magnitude of this work had ever been conceived; the first complete history of modern art, it is widely regarded as the most influential art history book ever written.
An instant success upon its publication in the mid-16th century, Giorgio Vasari\'s Lives of the Artists remains one of the principal resources for study of the art and artists of the Italian Renaissance
