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Vasari writes about artists who were, for the most part, his contemporaries. George bull translated widely from the italian during his lifetime, and also wrote several books on the renaissance period. Printed originally in italian in the midsixteenth century, this book is considered not only the first history of art but also the first to put into words the process of growth and rebirth that characterized the renaissance. Published around 1550, vasari wrote some of the first biographies of many famous italian artists. A painter and architect in his own right, giorgio vasari 151174 achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow renaissance artists, first. But giorgio was more than an artist, he was in many ways the father of art history. In 155o he published his volume the lives of the most excellent painters. The lives of the artists by giorgio vasari abebooks. Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors and architects by giorgio vasari translated by gaston du c. Podcast for kids nfb radio 101 sermon podcast pauping off all steak no sizzle podcast church of the oranges daily chapel spring 2012. But not many people know that vasari was a painter and architect as well as a biographer, and that he wrote one of the most valuable treatises on the technical methods of the painters, architects, and sculptors of his time.
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