Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Giorgio Vasari and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Vol. 2 Ghiberti had alread completed the north door, and was then working at that which was pla opposite to the cathedral. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 2 of 10 Classic Reprint written by Giorgio Vasari and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 2 of 10 IF those who labour to become excellent in some art did not very often have the thread of life out by death in their best years, I have no doubt that many intellects would arrive at that rank which is most desired both by them and by the world. But the short life of men and the bitterness of various accidents, which threaten them from all sides, snatch them from us sometimes prematurely, as could be seen in poor young Berna of Siena, who, although he died young, nevertheless left so many works that he appears to have lived very long and those that he left were made in such a way, that it may well be believed from this showing that he would have become excellent and rare it he had not died so soon. In two chapels of S. Agostino in Siena there are seen some little pictures with figures in fresco, by his hand; and in the church, on a wall now pulled down in order to make chapels there, was a scene of a youth led to execution, as well made as it could possibly be imagined, there being seen expressed in it the pallor and fear of death, in so lifelike a manner that he deserved therefore the highest praise. Beside the said youth was a friar painted in a very fine attitude, and, in short, everything in that work is so vividly wrought that it appears, indeed, that in this work Berna imagined this event as most horrible, as it must be, and full of most bitter and cruel terror, seeing that he portrayed it so well with the brush that the same scene appearing in reality would not stir greater emotion. In the city of Cortona, also, besides many other works scattered in many places in that city, he painted the greater part of the vaulting and of the walls of the Church of S. Margherita, where to-day is the seat of the Frati Zoccolanti. From Cortona he went to Arezzo in the year I 369, exactly when the Tarlati, formerly Lords of Pietramala. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 2 written by Giorgio Vasari and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Vol. 2: Translated From the Italian Ghiberti had already completed the north door, and was then working at that which was placed opposite to the cathedral. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 3 written by Vol III and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Vol. 3: Translated From the Italian of Giorgio Vasari, With Notes and Illustrations, Chiefly Selected Geometrical and astronomical figures are here meant. Astronomy and astrology were identical, as our readers will remember, when our author wrote, in the ideas of all but the learned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 8 of 10 written by Giorgio Vasari and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 8 of 10: Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero, 1914 When Pietro Perugino, by that time an Old man, was painting the altar-piece Of the high-altar Of the Servites at Florence, a nephew of Giuliano and Antonio da San Gallo, called Bastiano, was placed with him to learn the art of painting. But the boy had not been long with Perugino, when he saw the manner of Michelagnolo in the cartoon for the Hall, Of which we have already spoken so many times, in the house of the Medici, and was so struck with admiration, that he would not return any more to Pietro's workshop, considering that his manner, beside that of Buonarroti, was dry, petty, and by no means worthy to be imitated. And since, among those who used to go to paint that cartoon, which was for a time the school of all who wished to attend to painting, the most able of all was held to be Ridolfo Ghirlandajo, Bastiano chose him as his companion, in order to learn colouring from him, and so they became fast friends. But not ceasing therefore to give his attention to that cartoon and to work at those nudes, Bastiano Copied all together in a little cartoon the whole composition Of that mass of figures, which not one of all those who had worked at it had ever drawn as a whole. And Since he applied himself to it with all the earnestness that was in him, it proved that he was afterwards able on any occasion to render an account of the attitudes, muscles, and movements of those figures, and of the reasons that had caused Buonarroti to depict certain difficult postures; in doing which he would speak slowly and sententiously, with great gravity, so that a company of able craftsmen gave him the name Of Aristotile, which, moreover, sat upon him all the better because it appeared that according to an ancient portrait of that supreme philosopher and confidant of Nature, Bastiano much resembled him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Giorgio Vasari and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 1 In our own language, no translation, previous to the present, has appeared; but an abridgement of a few of the lives was published in a thin 4to, London, 1719. Of the mode in which the present attempt has been performed, the reader will form his own judgment. The object of the translator has been to give Vasari as he is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 5 of 5 written by Mrs. Jonathan Foster and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Vol. 5 of 5: Translated From the Italian of Giorgio Vasari, With Notes and Illustrations, Chiefly Selected Form German and Italian Commetators Of David and Benedetto Ghirlandajo, Vasari has already made men tion In the Life of Domenico their brother, for which see vol. Ii. Of the present work, p. 200, cl seq. Vol. V. Idleness, and the other spent his time in vainly racking his brains about mosaics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 10 of 10 written by Giorgio Vasari and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 10 of 10: Bronzino to Vasari, and General Index, 1915 E fuggi per non far piu mai ritorno Sola tu, che distruggi Ogni mia pace, a far Vienne soggiorno, Invidia, Gelosia, Pensiero e Scorno Meco nel cieco Inferno Ove 1' aspro martir mio viva eterno. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors Architects Classic Reprint written by Giorgio Vasari and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors Architects Wherefore, through the debt which this age, these arts, and these craftsmen owe to your ancestors, and to you as the heir of their virtue and of their patronage of these professions, and through that debt which 1, above all, owe them, seeing that I was taught by them, that I was their subject and their devoted servant, that I was brought up under Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici, and under Alessandro, your predecessor, and that, finally, I am infinitely attached to the blessed memory of the Magnificent Ottaviano de' Medici, by whom I was supported, loved and protected while he lived for all these reasons, I say, and because from the greatness of your worth and of your fortunes there will come much favour for this work, and from your understanding of its subject there will come a better appreciation than from any other for its useful ness and for the labour and the diligence that I have given to its execu tion, it has seemed to me that to your Excellency alone could it be fittingly dedicated, and it is under your most honoured name that I have wished it to come to the hands of men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 9 of 10 written by Giorgio Vasari and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 9 of 10: Michelagnolo to the Flemings, 1915 Cises and arts - namely, in painting, in Sculpture, and in architecture the Tuscan intellects have always been exalted and raised high above all others, from their being diligent in the labours and studies of every faculty beyond no matter what other people of Italy, He chose to give him Florence, as worthy beyond all other cities, for his country, in order to bring all the talents to their highest perfection in her, as was her due, in the person of one of her citizens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 4 of 10 Classic Reprint written by Giorgio Vasari and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 4 of 10 He also wrought certain things in Lucca, particularly a panel in a chapel of the Church of S. Ponziano, which belongs to the Monks of Monte Oliveto in the centre of which chapel there is a niche containing a very beautiful S. Anthony in relief by the hand of Andrea Sansovino, a most excellent sculptor. Being invited to go to Hungary by King Matthias, Filippo refused, but made up for this by painting two Very beautiful panels for that King in Florence, and sending them to him and in one of these he made a portrait of the King, taken from his likeness on medals. He also sent certain works to Genoa; and beside the Chapel of the high-altar in S. Domenico at Bologna, on the left hand, he painted a S. Sebastian on a panel, which was a. Thing worthy of much praise. For Tanai de' Nerli he executed another panel in S. Salvadore, without Florence and for his friend Piero del Pugliese he painted a scene with little figures, executed with so much art and diligence that when another citizen besought him to make a second like it, he refused, saying that it was not possible to do it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors Architects written by Vasari Giorgio 1511-1574 and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Download or read book Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 6 of 10 Classic Reprint written by Giorgio Vasari and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 6 of 10 Fra Giocondo, then, who was a fine scholar, a capable architect, and an excellent master of perspective, spent many years near the person of the Emperor Maximilian, and was master in the Greek and Latin tongues to the learned Scaliger, who writes that he heard him dispute with pro found learning on matters of the greatest subtlety before the same Maxi milian. It is related by persons still living, who remember the facts very clearly, that at the time when Verona was under the power of that Emperor the bridge which is called the Ponte della Pietra, in that city, was being restored, and it was seen to be necessary to refound the central pier, which had been destroyed many times in the past, and Fra Giocondo gave the design for refounding it, and also for safeguarding it in such a manner that it might never be destroyed again. His method of safe guarding it was as follows: he gave orders that the pier should be kept always bound together with long double piles fixed below the water on every Side, to the end that these might so protect it that the river should not be able to undermine it; for the place where it is built is in the main current of the river, the bed of which is so soft that no solid ground can be found on which to lay its foundations. And excellent, in truth, as is evident from the result, was the advice of Fra Giocondo, for the reason that the pier has stood firm from that time to our own, as it still does, without ever showing a crack; and there is hope that, by the observation of the suggestions given by that good monk, it will stand for ever. In his youth Fra Giocondo spent many years in Rome, giving his attention to the study of antiquities, and not of buildings only, but also of the ancient inscriptions that are in the tombs, and the other relics of antiquity, both in Rome itself and its neighbourhood, and in every partof Italy;' and he collected all these inscriptions and memorials into a most beautiful book, which he sent as a present, according to the account of the citizens of Verona mentioned above, to the elder Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent, to whom, by reason of the great friendliness and favour that he Showed to all men of talent, both Fra Giocondo and Domizio Calderino, his companion and compatriot, were always most deeply devoted. Of this book Poliziano makes mention in his Mugellane, in which he uses various parts of it as authorities, calling Fra Giocondo a profound master in antiquities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.