Life of Beccafumi (Lives of the Artists) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Life of Beccafumi (Lives of the Artists) Book

Contemporary of Vasariâ??s hero, Michelangelo, and like him a sculptor as much as a painter, Domenico Beccafumi could nonetheless hardly present a more different artistic personality. His calligraphically curved figuresâ??often wispy and strangely insubstantial, and bathed in a mysterious gloomâ??look away from classicism to the picturesqueness of early Sienese painting and the most romantic elements of Mannerism. His idiosyncratic achievement is a fascinating example of the unexpected riches of Italian renaissance art outside the well-trodden paths of Florence and Rome. Vasariâ??s biography is our main source of information for his life, and remains a fascinating description of an unmistakably individual artist. Read More

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  • 1843680289
  • 9781843680284
  • Giorgio Vasari, Jennifer Sliwka
  • 15 June 2007
  • Pallas Athene Arts
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 96
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