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Selections from The Lives of the Great Artists

Audiobook

Five hundred years after they were written, Vasari’s ‘Lives of the Artists’ remains the principal source book on the remarkable flowering of Italian painting in the 15th century. Here are Giotto, Cimabue, Ucello, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo, Botticelli, Mantegna, Leonardo, Raphael, Michaelangelo, Titian and even Vasari himself. In all there are biographies from over 35 Artists.

This set offers a carefully chosen selection of the most interesting and relevant sections – how and why the artists painted and sculpted, how they lived and the pressures they were under.

Music: From the Italian Renaissance


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Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks Edition: Abridged

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  • File size: 225791 KB
  • Release date: April 28, 2005
  • Duration: 07:50:23

MP3 audiobook

  • File size: 226050 KB
  • Release date: April 28, 2005
  • Duration: 07:50:23
  • Number of parts: 6

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OverDrive Listen audiobook
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subjects

Juvenile Fiction

Languages

English

Levels

Text Difficulty:6-12

Five hundred years after they were written, Vasari’s ‘Lives of the Artists’ remains the principal source book on the remarkable flowering of Italian painting in the 15th century. Here are Giotto, Cimabue, Ucello, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo, Botticelli, Mantegna, Leonardo, Raphael, Michaelangelo, Titian and even Vasari himself. In all there are biographies from over 35 Artists.

This set offers a carefully chosen selection of the most interesting and relevant sections – how and why the artists painted and sculpted, how they lived and the pressures they were under.

Music: From the Italian Renaissance


Expand title description text