Lives of the Artists

by Giorgio Vasari

Read by Neville Jason

Five hundred years after they were written, Vasari’s Lives of the Artists remains the principal source book on the remarkable flowering of Italian painting in the fifteenth century. Here are Giotto, Cimabue, Ucello, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo, Botticelli, Mantegna, Leonardo, Raphael, Michaelangelo, Titian and even Vasari himself. In all there are biographies of over thirty-five artists.

This 6 CD set offers a carefully chosen selection of the most interesting and relevant sections – how and why the artists painted and sculpted, how they lived and the pressures they were under.

An absorbing insight into another world.

Featuring music from the Italian Renaissance

6 CDs
Running Time: c.7 hours
ISBN: 9-62634-255-2
Catalogue no: NA625512
US SRP: $41.98 / CANADA SRP: Can$54.95