Vasari on Technique by Giorgio Vasari

Vasari on Technique

Being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture and painting, prefixed to the lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects.

by Giorgio Vasari

translated by Louisa S. Maclehose

Dover Publications, 1960, black and white illustrations, black and white frontispiece, paperback

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, some scuffing and marking to covers, discolouration to covers and fore-edges, previous owners inscription on half title page (see photographs)

“Giorgio Vasari (1511-1571) is well-known for his celebrated work on the lives of the Renaissance artists.  But not many people know that Vasari was a painter and architect as well as a biographer, and that he wrote one of the most valuable treaties in existence today on the technical methods of the painters, architects, and sculptors of his time.  This is the first and only English translation of this important technical material (originally published in 1550 as an introduction to Vasari’s “Lives of the Artists”)”