The Life of Leonardo da Vinci

　　喬爾喬．瓦薩里被譽為「西方第一位藝術史家」，其著作《藝苑名人傳》(1550-1569)被認為是第一本藝術史著作，講述了義大利的文化、藝術史，至今仍是研究文藝復興時期藝術、文化和社會的珍貴原始資料。從喬托(Giotto)到米開朗基羅(Michelangelo)，瓦薩里生動地描繪了大師每件藝術品的創造歷程，共講述了260多位義大利文藝復興時期傑出藝術家的生平及其重要作品。

　　與李奧納多．達文西幾乎屬於同一時期的瓦薩里，將其生平描繪的最為傳神–更別說是他所熟悉與景仰的米開朗基羅。

　　此書由傑出學者、達文西研究專家馬丁．坎普(Martin Kemp)進行文學編譯，並遵從16世紀的義大利語原版著作，將瓦薩里的詞彙轉換為現代版本。坎普與露西．羅素(Lucy Russell)共同合作翻譯，且是首次涵蓋1550年版和1568年的擴展版本，並將兩個版本整合成一版。

　　《The Life of Leonardo da Vinci》將瓦薩里對藝術作品的見解與達文西的科學和技術研究相結合，並在達文西逝世的五百周年獻給您!

　　Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550 and 1569) is a classic of cultural history. A monumental assembly of artists’ lives from Giotto to Michelangelo, it paints a vivid picture of the progress of art in the hands of individual masters. No Life is more vivid than that of Leonardo, a near-contemporary of Vasari – not even Vasari’s account of Michelangelo, whom he knew and idolized.

　　This beautiful edition offers a literary translation that respects the 16th-century Italian, transposing Vasari’s vocabulary into its modern equivalent. Martin Kemp is an eminent scholar, who has written on the vocabulary of Renaissance writings on art, and has co-translated Leonardo on Painting and Leonardo’s Codex Leicester. Translated in partnership with Lucy Russell, the text will be the first to cover both the 1550 edition and the expanded version of 1568, and the first to integrate the texts of the two editions on the page. Discreet endnotes will provide succinct comments in the light of modern knowledge of Leonardo’s career.

　　Illustrated with all the works of art discussed by Vasari and a selection of Leonardo’s studies of science and technology, this will be the perfect accompaniment to Leonardo’s 500th anniversary celebrations.