Five hundred years after they were written, Vasari’s ‘Lives of the Artists’ remains the principal source book on the remarkable flowering of Italian painting in the 15th century. Here are Giotto, Cimabue, Ucello, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo, Botticelli, Mantegna, Leonardo, Raphael, Michaelangelo, Titian and even Vasari himself. In all there are biographies from over 35 Artists.
This set offers a carefully chosen selection of the most interesting and relevant sections – how and why the artists painted and sculpted, how they lived and the pressures they were under.
Music: From the Italian Renaissance
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Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) was born during one of the greatest eras of art, and five centuries later his work gives readers a contemporary window on the Renaissance. In these excerpts from his massive work, LIVES OF THE PAINTERS, SCULPTORS AND ARCHITECTS, Vasari not only describes the artists' major works, but shares personal reflections about the men themselves. Narrator Neville Jason, who also has chosen and abridged the selections, is skillful with the Italian and clearly shares Vasari's ear for entertaining anecdotes. This is most obvious in the substantial sections on Brunelleschi and Michelangelo, although some of the selections--there are 40 in all, some only five or six minutes--are too brief to be engaging. D.B. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine
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Selections from The Lives of the Great Artists
by Giorgio Vasari
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