The world of art is a source of endless fascination – the works themselves, and particularly the lives and acts of the men and women who create great art. Artist-biography.info is a website steeped in art history, designed to reveal interesting, surprising facts about these creators, and lead the viewer to a deeper understanding and appreciation of them.
The artist-biography.info site is based on Georgio Vasari’s magisterial collection, “The Lives of the Artists”. It was set up as a labor of love by the webmaster, who had his computer scan each page of the book and posted the results. He invites criticism and collaboration – visitors to artist-biography are free to submit reports about typographical errors on any page, or even to re-scan certain pages and have that text replace what is already on line.
The roster of artists on artist-biography.info is impressive. It is arranged in alphabetical order and focuses on the great painters, sculptors and architects of the Italian Renaissance. Familiar names like Fra Bartolomemeo, Filippo Lippi, Raphael and Dontatello can be found here, along with lesser-known artists like Luca Signorelli and Leon Battista Alberti. Each name opens to a full page on that artist, containing biographical details as far as they are known, a listing of well-known or familiar works, and an image of the artist. Each entry is deep and meaty, full of detail and well worth being read. Should the student of art wish to go beyond artist-biography, the site also offers a link to purchase the full volume of Vasari’s masterpiece on Amazon.com.
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