Publisher's Synopsis
It is to Vasari that we owe much of our knowledge of Raphael (1483-1520), who in his day was considered perhaps the greatest painter of all time. Rich in colorful anecdotes, TheLife of Raphael is important for its sustained attention to the range of Raphael's art, whose chronology and development Vasari describes in detail, together with the painter's ample love life and spectacular social career. It also pays attention, unprecedented for its time, to theoretical issues.
This edition, introduced by the scholar Jill Burke, includes thirty pages of color illustrations covering the entire span of Raphael's oeuvre.