Collected here for the first time, these fascinating early biographies, two of which have never been translated before, describe and celebrate the astonishingly fertile art of Paolo Veronese. Most of what we know about Veronese comes from these three writings, and the "Life" by Carlo Ridolfi broke new ground in its scope and ambition. Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), a highly successful Florentine painter, contemporary and friend of Michelangelo, and pioneer collector of drawings, compiled the "Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects," which remains the greatest single work on the art of the Italian renaissance. Raffaele Borghini (1537-1588), another Florentine artist and theorist of art, expanded on Vasari s biography. Carlo Ridolfi (1594-1658), a Venetian, was also a painter but achieved greater fame as a chronicler of the art of Venice. More consciously literary than Vasari, he also was more scholarly in his use of documentation. Translated and introduced by Xavier F. Salomon, Curator of Southern Baroque Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 14 pages of prints after Veronese, by contemporaries including the Carracci."
- ISBN10 1843680491
- ISBN13 9781843680499
- Publish Date 1 September 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 March 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pallas Athene Publishers
- Imprint Pallas Athene Arts
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English