Life of michelangelo vasari
Michelangelo painting
The life of michelangelo (lives of the artists): vasari!
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Paperback – 145 x 115 mm – 256 pages
Fifty-nine colour illustrations
ISBN 9781843681571
One of the greatest biographies of an artist ever written, and a key document of the Renaissance.
Written by a friend, fellow painter and fellow Florentine.
Michelangelo Buonarrotti (1475-1564) is perhaps the greatest artist in the entire Western tradition.
Life of michelangelo vasari
In painting, sculpture and architecture he created works that went beyond anything imagined before. The David – miraculously created, as Vasari describes, out of a piece of marble botched by another sculptor – the Sistine Ceiling, the Sistine Last Judgement, before which the Pope knelt in terrifed prayer when it was first unveiled: these works have lost none of their awe-inspiring power.
Michelangelo’s impact was immediate and he achieved a level of fame and influence that was unprecedented.
It is not surprising, therefore, that the painter Giorgio