The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics)

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I found this book boring when I tried to read it in Texas, but utterly fascinating and indispensable when I read it in my hotel room in Florence. The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects ( Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori), often simply known as The Lives ( Italian: Le Vite), is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", [1] "some of the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art", [2] and "the first important book on art history". However, Vasari has also been accused of being the cause of the traditional neglect of the Northern Renaissance (Flemish, German and Scandinavian art), but this seems unfair having read Vasari's work.

It is a unique piece of urban planning that functions as a public piazza, and which, if considered as a short street, is unique as a Renaissance street with a unified architectural treatment [ clarification needed]. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, this work traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo.O listen to the malignant Vasari, he says that the rivals of Titian were not men of valor when these … all … were painters of great importance. While the pre-1968 Factory certainly flirted with celebrity and the mainstream vehicles of fame, it did so under critical auspices. The Lives also convey much about Vasari himself and his outstanding abilities as a critic inspired by his passion for art. In every interview that Koons gives about the content of his work, he infuses his otherwise ‘empty’, ‘vulgar’, ‘icy’ and ‘banal’ œuvre with more than just biographical details.

Cửa sổ nhôm Xingfa thường được trang bị các tính năng an toàn và bảo mật như khóa chốt và kính cường lực. It is very difficult to read about a whole catalogue of paintings when you don't have the pictures in front of you. In Vasari's view, Florentine artists excelled because they were hungry, and they were hungry because their fierce competition amongst themselves for commissions kept them so. It is now a museum in his honour named the Casa Vasari, whilst his residence in Florence is also preserved.

Similarly, Joachim von Sandrart, author of Deutsche Akademie (1675), became known as the "German Vasari" and Antonio Palomino, author of An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects (1724), became the "Spanish Vasari".

The result has been that avant-garde strategies have been absorbed into mainstream culture, sucked in by the allure of the culture industry. There is Vasari the painter, Vasari the architect and courtier, Vasari the academician and, last but not least, Vasari the author whose name—and we have to consider carefully what this claim means—appears on the title page of his text, Le vite de’ più eccellenti architetti, pittori e scultori, published first in 1550 and then again in 1568 in an enlarged edition. Martin Kippenberger explored the clichés and norms of the art world, and the art of his generation is better understood in the light of the emergence of rock and punk, transforming this taboo-breaking energy into art. This specially commissioned translation contains thirty-six of the most important lives as well as an introduction and explanatory notes. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall).

Between his first and second editions, Vasari visited Venice and the second edition gave more attention to Venetian art (finally including Titian) without achieving a neutral point of view.

The most recent new English translation is by Peter and Julia Conaway Bondanella, published in the Oxford World's Classics series in 1991. Elinor Richter, reviewing Philip Sohms study of style in the art theory Archived 5 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine :"Giorgio Vasari's Vite, the first edition of which was published in 1550, provides the foundation for any discussion of the development of style. just remember what a privilege it is to google every artist while reading the chapters and seeing the beautiful art Vasari is writing about. His nicknames and alter egos appeared everywhere he worked: Kippy, Der Kippenberger, MK, Spiderman, a crucified Frog, or just plain Martin.Kippenberger as Selbstdarsteller can be compared with equally self-promoting/self-performing artists, ‘poised somewhere between Serge Gainsbourg and Klaus Kinski’. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. Donatello getting angry at Brunelleschi for his criticism of a crucifix, saying ‘Get some wood and do it yourself’, and then marveling at what Brunelleschi later produced. A series of full-page advertisements was purchased in the major trade magazines of the time – Artforum, Flash Art, Arts and Art in America.