Folio mayor, 34cm, tela editorial grabada, firma anterior propietario, con sobrecubierta ilustrada, muy buen estado. English translation by Gaston de Vere. With 120 full-color plates and 12 b/w illustrations. Giorgio Vasari is reconigzed as the first historian of art. An important florentine painter and architect of the sixteenth century, Vasari is best know as the author of «The lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors and architects» (1550). The standard italian edition of Vasari runs to nine volumens and covers a host of artists great and small. «The great masters» presents six of the most detailed and luminous biographies. Vasari’s texts are thoroughly annotated in this volume and are accompanied by a chronology that clearly relates the artist’s lives to the historical events of their time. Moreover, this book is unique among publications of Vasari for its inclusion of works of art discussed in the text».