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This recording features a selection of extracts from "Lives of the Artists", which are still the principal source books on 15th century Italian painters today, 500 years after they were written. Artists featured include: Giotto, Botticelli, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #2416762 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09
• Number of discs: 6
• Formats: Abridged, Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Binding: Audio CD

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Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) was born during one of the greatesteras of art, and five centuries later his work gives readers acontemporary window on the Renaissance. In these excerpts from hismassive work, LIVES OF THE PAINTERS, SCULPTORS AND ARCHITECTS, Vasarinot only describes the artists' major works, but shares personalreflections about the men themselves. Narrator Neville Jason, who alsohas chosen and abridged the selections, is skillful with the Italianand clearly shares Vasari's ear for entertaining anecdotes. This ismost obvious in the substantial sections on Brunelleschi andMichelangelo, although some of the selections--there are 40 in all,some only five or six minutes--are too brief to be engaging.D.B. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine