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Written by Giorgio Vasari - Audio book performed by Neville Jason - Produced by John Tydeman - Abridged Nonfiction - 6 COMPACT DISCS - 7 hours

Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks (September 2002)

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Ciambue · Giotto · Brunelleschi · Botticelli · Leonardo Da Vinci · Raphael · Dürer · Michelangelo · Titian · and many others: The Lives of the Artists was the first truly comprehensive history of art. Originally published in 1550, it remains our greatest source of information about that explosion of artistic creativity in 16th century Italy, the Renaissance. Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), himself a painter and architect of renown, was a personal friend of such major figures as Michelangelo and Titian, and his accounts of the lives of his contemporaries have an authenticity and immediacy, which is unique. In this absorbing insight into another world – but one in which we can see for ourselves – 40 of the greatest artists of the period are featured.