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Lives of Raphael
- Pallas Athene
- Series: Lives of The Artists
- by Giorgio Vasari, Jill Burke
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Publisher | Pallas Athene |
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ISBN | 9781843681564 |
Author(s) | by Giorgio Vasari, Jill Burke |
Publication date | March 2023 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 145 x 114 mm |
Illustrations | 51 col.ill. |
Pages | 128 |
Language(s) | English ed. |
Exhibition | Series: Lives of The Artists |
Description
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.