
Life of Raphael
Giorgio Vasari(Author)
Jill Burke(Editor)
Pallas Athene Publishers
Published on 1. June 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-0-9529986-7-9 (ISBN)
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Description
Raphael (1483-1520) was for centuries considered the greatest artist who ever lived. Much of what we know about him comes from this biography, written by the Florentine painter Giorgio Vasari and first published in 1550. Vasari's Lives of the Painters was the first attempt to write a systematic history of Italian art. The Life of Raphael is a key text not only for the appreciation of Raphael's own art - whose development and chronology Vasari describes in detail, together with the spectacular social career of the first painter to be mooted, it was claimed, as a Cardinal - but also for its unprecedented attention to theoretical issues. This is the first stand alone edition of the Life of Raphael. It is introduced by Dr. Jill Burke, Research Fellow at Edinburgh University, and has 22 pages of colour illustrations covering the span of Raphael's astonishing art.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
51 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 149 mm
Width: 116 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
91 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9529986-7-9 (9780952998679)
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