An annotated and illustrated version of Giorgio Vasari's History of Italian and northern prints from his Lives of the artists, 1550 & 1568

Author(s)

• Vasari, Giorgio
• Getscher, Robert H.

Bibliographic Information

An annotated and illustrated version of Giorgio Vasari's History of Italian and northern prints from his Lives of the artists, 1550 & 1568

Robert H. Getscher

Edwin Mellen Press, c2003

• Book 1
• Book 2

Other Title

Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architettori

Note

Includes bibliographical references (Book 1, p. 305-316) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Giorgio Vasari, friend of Michelangelo and the art historian, in the second edition of his "Lives of the Artists" mentioned almost 500 different prints from the 15th and 16th centuries, from both Italy and the North. Even with a number of editions of Vasari's "Lives" now in print, this section of his text on prints is not readily available. This volume identifies his numerous references and discusses the implications of his choices. The illustrations show works not found in the standard illustrated compendiums, such as Bartsch and Hollstein. Others depict works that Vasari recommended but that have slipped from our modern conventions of what ideas a print should convey, and how it should convey them.

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• NCID: BA63190629
• ISBN:
  • 0773471871
  • 0773470050
• LCCN: 2002025539
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ita
• Place of Publication: Lewiston, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 30 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : NE659
  • DC21 : 769.945/09/024
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Prints, Italian -- 15th century -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Prints, Italian -- 16th century -- Early works to 1800
  • LCSH : Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574. Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architettori