The Life of Raphael

Giorgio Vasari, Jill Burke

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Pallas Athene
01 July 2023

Art & Architecture; Renaissance art; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs; Biography: arts & entertainment

Series: Lives of the Artists

Raphael (1483-1520) was for centuries considered the greatest artist who ever lived. Much of what we know about him comes from this biography, written by the Florentine painter Giorgio Vasari and first published in 1550.

Vasari's Lives of the Painters was the first attempt to write a systematic history of Italian art. The Life of Raphael is a key text not only for the appreciation of Raphael's own art whose development and chronology Vasari describes in detail, together with the spectacular social career of the first painter to be mooted, it was claimed, as a Cardinal but also for its unprecedented attention to theoretical issues.

This is the first standalone edition of the Life, and was published to coincide with the major exhibition of Raphael paintings and drawings at the National Gallery. It is introduced by Dr. Jill Burke, Research Fellow at Edinburgh University, and has 22 pages of colour illustrations covering the span of Raphael's astonishing art.

51 colour illustrations

By: Giorgio Vasari
Edited by: Jill Burke
Imprint: Pallas Athene
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 145mm, Width: 114mm,
Weight: 138g
ISBN: 9781843681564
ISBN 10: 1843681560
Series: Lives of the Artists
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 01 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a Florentine architect and painter; in addition to his great Lives, his best-known works are the frescoes in the Palazzo Vecchio.

Reviews for The Life of Raphael

"""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"