by Giorgio Vasari · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140445008
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«Lives of the Artists: Volume 1» is Giorgio Vasari's selection of biographies, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (480 pages, in English).
Vasari covers three centuries of Italian art, from Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century to Leonardo and Michelangelo, with biographical data, anecdotes and character portraits. He narrates episodes such as Giotto's first drawings on stone or Michelangelo's work in the Sistine Chapel, and shows his own perspective as an art critic.
First volume of the «Lives of the Artists» series, translated into English by George Bull. Vasari's original work was published in 1550.
Aimed at readers interested in art history, the Italian Renaissance and biographies of artists.
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of Western art-historical writing, and still much cited in modern biographies of the many Italian Renaissance artists he covers, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, although he is since regarded as including many factual errors, especially when covering artists from before he was born.
