IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Each page is checked manually before printing. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. NO changes have been made to the original text. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Few artists that Vasari criticised have been comprehensively rehabilitated and Vasari’s semi-divine trio of Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo are still seen as the apotheosis of artistic perfection.Leatherbound. It has formed and defined the way we think about Renaissance art to this day and some credit him with being the founder of the discipline of the history of art. Nonetheless, the influence of his work has been unparalleled. In more recent decades, Vasari has been criticised for not allowing factual accuracy to get in the way of a good story. But amongst these beguiling stories of human achievement, Vasari also explained his own theory of what made great art. We learn that the painter Piero di Cosimo was scared of the sound of bells, and witness Donatello shouting at his statues. For the first time, Vasari set out to record artists’ eccentricities and foibles as well as their artistic triumphs. In it he chronicled the evolution of Italian art from the early pioneer Giotto to the perfection of Michelangelo. In 1550 a little known Italian artist, Giorgio Vasari, published a revolutionary book entitled ‘Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times’. Melvyn Bragg discusses ‘Lives of the Artists’ - the great biographer Giorgio Vasari’s study of Renaissance painters, sculptors and architects.
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