Vite De' Più Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori E Architetti (1791) (14578747047)
''The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects'' ( it, Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori), often simply known as ''The Lives'' ( it, Le Vite), is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art",Max Marmor, ''Kunstliteratur''
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Ernst Gombrich

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Eliza Foster
Eliza Vere Foster ( Cheltenham, 25 July 1802 - Bergamo, 4 October 1888) was an English author and literary translator from Italian, Spanish and German. Biography After studying classic and modern languages, and already a widow at 30, on 7 March 1832 in Chelwood Eliza married another widower, Jonathan Foster ( Hilston in Holderness, Yorkshire, 1782 - Paris, 1859), with whom she had a son who later worked as deputy commissioner of customs in British India until he suddenly died there in 1870.Troy J. BassettAuthor Information: Eliza Vere Foster ''At the Circulating Library '' Eliza Foster worked as translator for publisher Bohn, most notably by translating and adding careful and abundant annotations to the first English-language translation (as "Mrs. Jonathan Foster") of the 5 volumes of Vasari's '' Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects'' in 1850–1851. According to professor Patricia Rubin of New York University, "her translation of Vasari brought t ...
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