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Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects: Illustrated - Biographies of the Greatest Artists of Renaissance, Including Leonardo da ... Giotto, Raphael, Brunelleschi & Donatello
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LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, AND ARCHITECTS (ILLUSTRATED): ALL TEN VOLUMES
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« Le peintre est assis devant son ouvrage de manière à être parfaitement à l’aise. Il est bien habillé et manie un pinceau léger trempé dans une couleur délicate. Il est vêtu comme il lui plaît. Son logis est propre et rempli d’œuvres magnifiques, et il agrémente souvent son travail de musique ou de la lecture d’excellents ouvrages. »
Walter Isaacson • Léonard de Vinci: La biographie (QUANTO) (French Edition)
Francesco di Giorgio from Siena.8 Thirteen years older than Leonardo, he was another exemplar of an artisan who combined art, engineering, and architecture. He had begun as a painter, moved as a young man to Urbino to work as an architect, returned to Siena to run the underground aqueduct system, and was a sculptor in his spare time. He was also in
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Un de ses prédécesseurs, Leon Battista Alberti, artiste-ingénieur, a écrit quelques années auparavant que cette matière est essentielle à l’artiste car, pour dépeindre correctement un individu ou un animal, il faut avant tout connaître ses caractéristiques internes. « Isole chaque os de l’animal, ajoute dessus ses muscles, puis recouvre le tout de
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Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects is considered art history’s foundational text.
Nell Irvin Painter • Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, born around 80 BC, served in the Roman army under Caesar and specialized in the design and construction of artillery machines. His duties took him to what are now Spain and France and as far away as North Africa. Vitruvius later became an architect and worked on a temple, no longer in existence, in the town of Fano in Italy
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Brunelleschi’s successor as a theorist of linear perspective was another of the towering Renaissance polymaths, Leon Battista Alberti (1404 –1472), who refined many of Brunelleschi’s experiments and extended his discoveries about perspective. An artist, architect, engineer, and writer, Alberti was like Leonardo in many ways: both were illegitimate
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Lorsque Léonard souhaitait peindre un personnage, il considérait avant tout le statut social et les émotions qu’il devait représenter : noble ou plébéien, joyeux ou sévère, troublé ou serein, vieux ou jeune, courroucé ou inquiet, bon ou mauvais. Une fois décidé, il se rendait dans des endroits qu’il savait fréquentés par ce type de personnes et obs
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