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  • Michael Angelo Buonarroti

    Holroyd explores Michelangelo's formative experiences, including his apprenticeship under the sculptor Domenico Ghirlandaio and his studies in the humanist tradition, which laid the groundwork for his artistic vision. The biography highlights Michelangelo's remarkable talent, detailing his masterpieces such as the iconic statue of David, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and the poignant sculpture of ... Read more

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  • Michael Angelo Buonarroti

    Enriched edition. With Translations Of The Life Of The Master By His Scholar, Ascanio Condivi

    In "Michael Angelo Buonarroti," Charles Holroyd presents a compelling exploration of the life and artistic genius of one of the Renaissance's most iconic figures. Holroyd's literary style is characterized by its vivid imagery and detailed analysis, seamlessly blending biographical narrative with art criticism. The text not only chronicles Michelangelo's exceptional contributions to sculpture, ... Read more

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  • The Lives of the Artists

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the period of youthful vigour, shaped by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and Masaccio, before ... Read more

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  • The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

    Translated by Gaston du C. de Vere ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographical writing, Vasari infused these literary portraits with a decidedly modern form of critical judgment. The result is a work that remains to this day the ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Michelangelo (Delphi Classics)

    Series Book 10 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The ‘Divine’ sculptor, painter, architect, poet and engineer, Michelangelo Buonarroti exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art, producing masterpieces that rank among the most famous in existence. Delphi’s groundbreaking ‘Masters of Art Series’ presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of the world’s greatest artists in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Complete Works of Raphael (Delphi Classics)

    Series Book 13 - Delphi Masters of Art
    Celebrated for his clarity of form, ease of composition and the sublime beauty of his ‘Madonnas’, Raphael is the epitome of the High Renaissance genius. In spite of his untimely death, he left behind a large body of work that would have a monumental influence on the course of art in the ensuing centuries. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing ... Read more

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  • Lives of the Artists

    Translated by George Bull ...
    Series Book 1 - Lives of the Artists
    Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first drawings on stone; Donatello gazing at Brunelleschi's crucifix; and Michelangelo's painstaking work ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Giotto (Delphi Classics)

    Series Book 24 - Delphi Masters of Art
    Revered as the father of European painting and the first of the great Italian masters, Giotto di Bondone was the leading Italian painter of the fourteenth century, whose pioneering works would lead on to the innovations and wonders of the High Renaissance. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artists in ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Titian (Delphi Classics)

    Series Book 15 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The most prominent exponent of Venetian art, Titian was equally adept with portraits and landscapes, as well as mythological and religious subjects. His celebrated use of colour would exercise a profound influence on future generations of Western art. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of great artists in ... Read more

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  • Florence

    A Traveller's Reader

    by Edward Chaney ...
    'The best conceivable guide to the city' - an essential cultural history for all visitors of FlorenceThe rich and glorious past of one of the best loved cities in the world, Florence, is brought vividly to life for today's visitor in this collection which draws on letters, diaries and memoirs of travellers to Florence and the Florentines themselves.Of all Italian cities, Florence has always had ... Read more

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  • Early Italian Painting

    From Giotto to Fra Angelico: the birth of perspective

    Oscillating between the majesty of the Greco-Byzantine tradition and the modernity predicted by Giotto, Early Italian Painting addresses the first important aesthetic movement that would lead to the Renaissance, the Italian Primitives. Trying new mediums and techniques, these revolutionary artists no longer painted frescos on walls, but created the first mobile paintings on wooden panels. The ... Read more

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  • Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo

    74 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 4 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical ... Read more

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