The Life of Michelangelo

Giorgio Vasari, David Hemsoll

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English

Pallas Athene Publishers
01 August 2023

Renaissance art; Painting & paintings; Sculpture; Individual artists, art monographs; Biography: historical, political & military

Series: Lives of the Artists

One of the greatest biographies of an artist ever written, and a key document of the Renaissance. Written by a friend, fellow painter and fellow Florentine. Now in a fully illustrated edition.

Michelangelo Buonarrotti (1475-1564) is perhaps the greatest artist in the entire Western tradition. In painting, sculpture and architecture he created works that went beyond anything imagined before. The David miraculously created, as Vasari describes, out of a piece of marble botched by another sculptor the Sistine Ceiling, the Sistine Last Judgement, before which the Pope knelt in terrified prayer when it was first unveiled: these works have lost none of their awe-inspiring power.

Michelangelo's impact was immediate and he achieved a level of fame and influence that was unprecedented. It is not surprising, therefore, that the painter Giorgio Vasari should have made him the culmination of his Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects, the first true work of art history. Vasari was a close colleague as well as a fellow-artist and fellow-Florentine. The biography printed here, from Vasari's much improved second edition, draws a picture of Michelangelo the man and the artist that has an immediacy and an authority that have not been surpassed. The introduction by David Hemsoll situates this great work in the context of 16th-century Italian art. 45 pages of colour illustrations cover the span of Michelangelo's achievement, and include many of Michelangelo's remarkable drawings.

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), painter, architect and intimate of the Medici, was a leading exponent of the later renaissance style sometimes called Mannerism, which was heavily influenced by Michelangelo. His lasting monument, however, is undoubtedly the Lives of the most excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, published in 1550 and in an enlarged edition in 1568.

David Hemsoll is a Renaissance art and architectural historian who works at the University of Birmingham. Among other specialities, he is an expert on Michelangelo and his artistic theory.

59 colour illustrations

By: Giorgio Vasari
Edited by: David Hemsoll
Imprint: Pallas Athene Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 145mm, Width: 114mm,
Weight: 258g
ISBN: 9781843681571
ISBN 10: 1843681579
Series: Lives of the Artists
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), painter, architect and intimate of the Medici, was a leading exponent of the later renaissance style sometimes called Mannerism, which was heavily influenced by Michelangelo. His lasting monument, however, is undoubtedly the Lives of the most excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, published in 1550 and in an enlarged edition in 1568.

Reviews for The Life of Michelangelo

""The London publishing house Pallas Athene has come up with the very welcome and worthwhile project of assembling English translations of early biographies of artists in an easily accessible publication."" - Historians of Netherlands Art Reviews