Le vite de’ piu eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori The Lives of the Artists

by Giorgio Vasari

$50,000 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

FIRST COMPLETE, FIRST ILLUSTRATED, AND MOST SOUGHT AFTER EDITION OF THE FIRST MODERN HISTORY OF ART. The Second Edition overall. An exceptional copy, very handsomely bound. Vasari’s “book contains the biographies of Italian painters, etc. from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. They are based on earlier written and printed sources, on oral accounts, on his knowledge of works of art and his own collection of large drawings. Vasari

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