Audiobooks by Giorgio Vasari

The Lives of the Artists

These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term 'Renaissance,' was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael. This new translation, specially commissioned for the Oxford World's Classics series, contains thirty-six of the most important lives. Lives of the Artists is an invaluable classic to add to your collection.

Giorgio Vasari (Author), James Cameron Stewart (Narrator)

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Das Leben des Raffael

Für Giorgio Vasari, dem einzigartigen Chronisten der italienischen Malerei gab es die Götter: Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci und Raffael, danach kam erst der Herrgott. Raffael war unter den Dreien der jugendliche Tragiker, der an einem Karfreitag geboren wurden und mit noch jungen Jahren von 37 ebenfalls an einem Karfreitag starb. Vasari schildert das gleichwohl illustre wie arbeitsreiche Leben Raffaels in schillerndsten Farben und gibt dabei dem ungebremsten Lebenswandel Raffaels die Schuld an seinem frühen Tod, der durch einen Aderlass zur Kurierung einer Geschlechtskrankheit verursacht worden sein soll. Ob dies tatsächlich an dem war, war zwar Streitgestand der Gelehrten über Jahrhunderte hinweg, schmälert jedoch keineswegs den Lesegenuss dieser Biografie, die voller sprühender Begeisterung für Raffaels grandiose Kunst halt gern mal über die Stränge schlägt.

Giorgio Vasari (Author), Frank Thomas (Narrator)

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The Lives of the Great Artists

An Italian Mannerist architect and painter, Giorgio Vasari was acquainted with many of the most famous artists of his day. He is best-known today for his biographies of artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, and Giotto. This recording is read with clarity and authority by Neville Jason.

Giorgio Vasari (Author), John Tydeman, Neville Jason, Neville Jason (Narrator)

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Lives of the Artists, Vol. 1

Georgio Vasari's original vision of the arts was to see the artist as divinely inspired. This historical work describes the lives of forty-five artists, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian, with striking immediacy conveyed through character sketches, anecdotes, and detailed recording of conversations. Despite some factual inaccuracies, Michelangelo praised Vasari for endowing artists with immortality. Vasari's shrewd judgments and his precise pinpointing of the emotions aroused by individual works of art bear out his prediction that he would have a worldwide influence on the history of art. Volume One covers the lives of Brunelleschi, Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, and fourteen more.

Giorgio Vasari (Author), Nadia May, Nadia May, Wanda Mccaddon (Narrator)

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