Lives of the Artists, Vol. 1 Audiobook (Free)

Georgio Vasari’s original vision from the arts was to start to see the musician mainly because divinely inspired. This historical work details the lives of forty-five performers, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian, with striking immediacy conveyed through personality sketches, anecdotes, and detailed recording of conversations. Despite some factual inaccuracies, Michelangelo praised Vasari for endowing artists with immortality. Vasari’s shrewd judgments and his exact pinpointing from the feelings aroused by individual artwork bear out his prediction that he’d have an internationally influence on the annals of art.

Volume One addresses the following artists: Cimabue, Giotto, Uccello, Ghiberti, Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Alberti, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Verrocchio, Mantegna, Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgione, Correggio, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian, aswell as additional records on the artists.