
The Life of Raphael
Giorgio Vasari(Author)
Jill Burke(Editor)
Pallas Athene Publishers
2nd Edition
Published on 1. April 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-84368-156-4 (ISBN)
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.
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Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
51 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 145 mm
Width: 114 mm
Weight
138 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84368-156-4 (9781843681564)
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Giorgio Vasari | Jill Burke
Life of Raphael
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06/2004
Pallas Athene Publishers
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Persons
Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a Florentine architect
and painter; in addition to his great Lives, his
best-known works are the frescoes in the Palazzo
Vecchio.
and painter; in addition to his great Lives, his
best-known works are the frescoes in the Palazzo
Vecchio.