This book presents the most important early texts about Tintoretto, some for the first time in English.  Meer

Through character sketches and anecdotes the author depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to paint, and Giulio Romano's startling painting of Jove striking down the giants.  Meer

One of the principal resources for study of Italian Renaissance art and artists, Vasari's Lives offers colorful, detailed portraits of the era's most representative figures.  Meer

The painter and architect Giorgio Vasari was a pupil of Michelangelo's who worked mainly in Florence and Rome, but he is more famous for his "Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects".  Meer

A key text not only for the appreciation of Raphael's own art but also for its unprecedented attention to theoretical issues.  Meer

Presents one of the greatest biographies of an artist ever written, and a key document of the Renaissance.  Meer