The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics)

About this book

These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari who invented the term "Renaissance " was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through Giotto Brunelleschi and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo Da Vinci and Raphael. This new translation specially commissioned for the Worlds Classics series contains thirty-six of the most important lives and is fully annotated.