OSREAD - Reading about Artists of the Italian Renaissance

Course Description

We will read three books about artists of the Italian Renaissance: Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.

The Life of Raphael by Giorgio  Vasari Translated and edited by Rick Scorza and Paul Joannides

Thames and Hudson, 2010. ISBN 978-0-500-09427-3. USE THIS EDITION ONLY

Michaelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King

Bloomsbury, 2003.  ISBN 978-1-62040-840-7. ANY EDITION WILL DO

Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

Simon and Schuster, 2017.  ISBN 978-15011-3916-1.  ANY EDITION OK

no defeat was ever final, no fate was ever foreordained, that even amid the ruins and corpses of defeat, rebirth and recovery and renewal could always come.”

— The Resistance Man: A Mystery of the French Countryside (Bruno Chief of Police Book 6) by Martin Walker

For more information about this course, contact: OLLI at LSU at 225-578-2500.