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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Volume 9
Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors and architects (1912). This book, "Lives of the most eminent painters Volume 9", by Giorgio Vasari, De Vere, is a replication of a book originally published before 1912. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
438 pages, Paperback
First published October 25, 2012
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Giorgio Vasari
1,051 books159 followersGiorgio Vasari was an Italian painter and architect, known for his famous biographies of Italian artists.
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August 26, 2014
I'm only reading Michelangelo's life. It's fascinating, the story of someone of extraordinary skill and energy whose entire capabilities were absorbed in their work and how they steered through the circumstances of a very long life.
There's a compression in Vasari's writing that I like. Much of what's being published today seems flaccid to me by comparison.
My complaint is that Vasari includes long descriptions of particular works. In particular he devotes a long section to a description of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. In a time before the internet and picture books this made sense but I found it uninteresting.
On second reading I have to add another negative. I find his praise outrageous this time.
“the most benign Ruler of Heaven in His clemency turned His eyes to the earth, and, having perceived the infinite vanity of all those labours, the ardent studies without any fruit, and the presumptuous self-sufficiency of men, which is even further removed from truth than is darkness from light, and desiring to deliver us from such great errors, became minded to send down to earth a spirit with universal ability in every art and every profession, who might be able, working by himself alone, to show what manner of thing is the perfection of the art of design..." and on and on.
There's a compression in Vasari's writing that I like. Much of what's being published today seems flaccid to me by comparison.
My complaint is that Vasari includes long descriptions of particular works. In particular he devotes a long section to a description of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. In a time before the internet and picture books this made sense but I found it uninteresting.
On second reading I have to add another negative. I find his praise outrageous this time.
“the most benign Ruler of Heaven in His clemency turned His eyes to the earth, and, having perceived the infinite vanity of all those labours, the ardent studies without any fruit, and the presumptuous self-sufficiency of men, which is even further removed from truth than is darkness from light, and desiring to deliver us from such great errors, became minded to send down to earth a spirit with universal ability in every art and every profession, who might be able, working by himself alone, to show what manner of thing is the perfection of the art of design..." and on and on.
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