Lives of the most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
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This audiobook provides all ten volumes of Giorgio Vasari’s biographies of artists of the Italian Renaissance. Vasari, who lived from 1511 – 1574, is credited with being the first art historian. He was an Italian painter, writer, and architect.
The Vasari's Masterpiece is the ideological foundation of art-historical writing, and the basis for biographies of several Renaissance artists, including Leonardo da Vinci, Giotto and Michelangelo. The audiobooks are as follows: 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; Volume 8 - Bastiano To Taddeo Zucchero; Volume 9 - Michelangelo To The Flemings; Volume 10 - Bronzino To Vasari.
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Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, best known for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing, and the basis for biographies of several Renaissance artists, including Leonardo da Vinci. Vasari designed the Tomb of Michelangelo in the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence that was completed in 1578. Based on Vasari's text in print about Giotto's new manner of painting as a rinascita (rebirth), author Jules Michelet in his Histoire de France (1835) suggested adoption of Vasari's concept, using the term Renaissance (rebirth, in French) to distinguish the cultural change. The term was adopted thereafter in historiography and still is in use today.
