Download or read book Vasari on Technique written by Giorgio Vasari and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traduzione in inglese delle tre introduzioni alle arti dell'architettura, scultura e pittura alle Vite di Giorgio Vasari.
Download or read book Modern Art written by Sam Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated and clearly focused, this book surveys the genesis, development, and culmination of modern European/American painting, sculpture, architecture, and conceptual art--from postimpressionism through the most recent developments in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects written by Giorgio Vasari and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters Sculptors and Architects V6 written by Giorgio Vasari and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects Often called "the first art historian", Vasari invented the genre of the encyclopedia of artistic biographies with his Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori (Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects), dedicated to Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, which was first published in 1550. He was the first to use the term "Renaissance" (rinascita) in print, though an awareness of the ongoing "rebirth" in the arts had been in the air since the time of Alberti, and he was responsible for our use of the term Gothic Art, though he only used the word Goth which he associated with the "barbaric" German style. The Lives also included a novel treatise on the technical methods employed in the arts. The book was partly rewritten and enlarged in 1568, with the addition of woodcut portraits of artists (some conjectural). The work has a consistent and notorious bias in favour of Florentines, and tends to attribute to them all the developments in Renaissance art — for example, the invention of engraving. Venetian art in particular (along with arts from other parts of Europe), is systematically ignored in the first edition. Between the first and second editions, Vasari visited Venice and while the second edition gave more attention to Venetian art (finally including Titian) it did so without achieving a neutral point of view. Vasari's biographies are interspersed with amusing gossip. Many of his anecdotes have the ring of truth, while others are inventions or generic fictions, such as the tale of young Giotto painting a fly on the surface of a painting by Cimabue that the older master repeatedly tried to brush away, a genre tale that echoes anecdotes told of the Greek painter Apelles. With a few exceptions, however, Vasari's aesthetic judgement was acute and unbiased. He did not research archives for exact dates, as modern art historians do, and naturally his biographies are most dependable for the painters of his own generation and those of the immediate past. Modern criticism – with new materials opened up by research – has corrected many of his traditional dates and attributions. Vasari includes a sketch of his own biography at the end of the Lives, and adds further details about himself and his family in his lives of Lazzaro Vasari and Francesco Salviati. According to the historian Richard Goldthwaite, Vasari was one of the earliest authors to use the term "competition" (or "concorrenza" in Italian) in its economic sense. He used it repeatedly, and stressed the concept in his introduction to the life of Pietro Perugino, in explaining the reasons for Florentine artistic preeminence. 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. Competition, he said, is "one of the nourishments that maintain them."
Download or read book The Price of Greatness written by Arnold M. Ludwig and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1995-03-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the lives and achievements of over 1,000 extraordinary men and women, this book offers answers to the age-old questions about the relationship between mental illness and greatness, and also reveals factors that predict creative achievement. The book is filled with colorful stories about many of the most eminent artists, scientists, social activists, politicians, soldiers, and business people of our time. Moving beyond anecdotal accounts, The Price of Greatness is based on over 10 years of original scientific research on major 20th-century figures. Delving into many of humankind's greatest achievements and the special attributes and backgrounds of those who accomplished them, this illuminating work will interest anyone who wants to know why some people achieve fame - and what price they may pay in the process.
Download or read book Painters Sculptors Architects Engravers and Their Works written by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 1 10 written by Giorgio Vasari and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 2891 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects" in 10 volumes is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered one of the most influential and most-read work of the older literature of art, as well as the first important book on art history. The title is often abridged to just the Vite or the Lives. As the first Italian art historian, Vasari initiated the genre of an encyclopedia of artistic biographies that continues today. The book contains the biographies of many important Italian artists, including a sketch of Vasari's autobiography, and is also adopted as a sort of classical reference guide for their names.
Download or read book Painters Sculptors Architects Engravers and Their Work written by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Painters Sculptors Architects Engravers and Their Works written by Mrs. Clara Erskine Clement Waters and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Painters Sculptors Architects Engravers and Their Works written by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Michelangelo Sculptor Painter Architect written by Charles De Tolnay and published by [Princeton, N.J.] : Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A distillation of Charles de Tolnay's monumental studies on Michelangelo, this book surveys the whole range of Michelangelo's career and achievements in sculpture, painting, and architecture ... completed and enriched by nearly four hundred illustrations"--Cover.
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Download or read book Painters Sculptors Architects Engravers and Their Works written by Clara Clement and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
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Download or read book The Genius of Architecture Or The Analogy of that Art with Our Sensations written by Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics. Camus's description of the French hotel argues that architecture should please the senses and the mind.
