The Life of Raphael

Giorgio Vasari author Jill Burke editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pallas Athene Publishers

Published:1st Apr '18

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The Life of Raphael cover

Raphael (1483-1520) was for centuries considered the greatest artist who ever lived. Much of what we know about him comes from this biography, written by the Florentine painter Giorgio Vasari and first published in 1550. Vasari's Lives of the Painters was the first attempt to write a systematic history of Italian art. The Life of Raphael is a key text not only for the appreciation of Raphael's own art - whose development and chronology Vasari describes in detail, together with the spectacular social career of the first painter to be mooted, it was claimed, as a Cardinal - but also for its unprecedented attention to theoretical issues.

"The London publishing house Pallas Athene has come up with the very welcome and worthwhile project of assembling English translations of early biographies of artists in an easily accessible publication." - Historians of Netherlands Art Reviews

ISBN: 9781843681564

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 138g

128 pages

2nd Enlarged edition