ISBN10: 0140441646, ISBN13: 9780140441642, [publisher: Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England] Softcover Open University Set Book. Pbk creasing to front and rear covers, no d/j, front cover small chip where price sticker was. Clean, tight copy, age yellowing. The book stretches from Cimabue and Giotto down to the golden ephoch of Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Vasari (1511-74) was himself a painter, but his fame rests on these biographies in which he gathered together all the current knowledge of the Florentine artistic heritage and triumphantly fused it with contemporary Italian theories of art. As a critic Vasari is impressive, and time has added immense historical importance to the great popular success his work achieved from the start. May require additional postage depending on destination, contact bookseller for quote
[Calgary, AB, Canada] [Publication Year: 1974]
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