Жизнеописание великих художников

The collection under a single cover of works by outstanding personalities from different eras - Giorgio Vasari, Karel Van Mander, Eugene Formentin, Salvador Dali - is not an accident. In the treasury of literature about art, their books occupied and still occupy a special place, representing a kind of standard of aesthetic education. They will be an ever-living example of insight and skill for those who write about art, popularize it, or simply seek to interpret it and feel the artistic creation.

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is one of the most prominent figures of the Italian Renaissance. As a student of Michelangelo Buonarotti and court artist of the Medici family, Vasari also left his mark on science, becoming one of the founders of art criticism. An artist, architect, and writer, Vasari is best known today for his seminal work on the most important painters, sculptors, and architects of the Italian Renaissance.

Thoughtful analysis, detailed biographical narrative, and astonishing details, subtly observed by a contemporary of these masters, make this book indispensable for all students of art.