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Vasari, Giorgio
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Written by m. Giorgio Vasari painter and architect from Arezzo, again by the same artist and enlarged with their portraits and with the addition of the lives of the viui, & of the dead from the year MDL up to MDLXVII, 1568
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Florence, Giunti, 1568. In 4 °. 3 vols. & Nbsp; Titles within a rich architectural border in each volume, the first depicts the Last Judgment (variant B), the Medici arms on the II, the view of Florence on the III, portrait of the author, 144 portraits in xylography by artists in medallion from drawings by Vasari and his pupils, a few handwritten notes, light browning, slight blooms and redness, some small stains, & nbsp; to I vol. cards A2-3 placed after booklet B, in vol. frontispiece recto and last card applied on cardboard, V2 card with missing text partially replaced by manuscript text, some restoration, to the II vol. to the title page cardboard applied to correct the text, restorations to paper 2Z4, some slightly faded papers including paper 2A3 (p. 189-90) of which there is a duplicate in loose sheet, restoration at the outer margin of the last paper, at the III vol. portrait of Giulio Genga with cardboard applied to correct the text, absent the little eye above & nbsp; Domenico Beccafumi (c. 3A1), the last 6H2-4 cards are missing, parchment binding with traces of the handwritten title on the spine and patch with ancient librarian numbering, slight defects. Paper bookplate with counterplates by & nbsp; Louis Thompson Rowe (1855-1927).
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First illustrated edition and second absolute (the first of 1550), with the corrected text and increased by many biographies, of the first true history of modern art. Fundamental work in Italian artistic historiography, in which Vasari elaborated the concept of the development and "rebirth" of art through three ages, which mark the abandonment of the Middle Ages, the entry into the modern age through the recovery of the ancient, and full maturity, expressed in Michelangelo's work. Specimen from the library of the bibliophile and musician & nbsp; Louis Thompson Rowe (1855-1927).
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