Reading Vasari / edited by Anne B. Barriault ... [and others].

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Barriault, Anne B., 1952-
• Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574. Vite de' più eccellenti architetti, pittori at scultori italiani.
• Art, Renaissance--Italy.
• Art, Renaissance.
• Art and literature.
• History.
• Artists.
• Italy.
• Art, Italian.
• Artists--Italy.
• Art and literature--Italy--History.

Physical Description:

296 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Philip Wilson in association with the Georgia Museum of Art ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Summary:

This book explores the rich literary character and rhetorical strategies of Giorgio Vasari's "Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects," which tells the story of Italian art as it unfolded from its beginnings in the Trecento to its pinnacle in Michelangelo and the art of the Academy in the mid-sixteenth century. The contributors propose ways to read Vasari's text in the light of recent disputes over what is fact, fiction, or biography, and who may have read Vasari's editions when they were first published. The essays isolate and analyze select threads from Vasari's luxurious textual tapestry: these range from architecture, cosmology and philosophy to biography, comedy, elegy and travelogue. In doing so, the authors have built upon ideas proposed in recent studies of the "Lives," including important works by Paul Barolsky and Patricia Rubin.

Contents:

• Vasari's polemics
• Vasari's first lights, flower of youth, and golden age
• Vasari's Rome and the noble origins of art
• Vasari's women: virtue and vice
• Vasari and the poetic imagination
• Vasari's humor
• Vasari on Vasari.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-293) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

0856675822 :

OCLC:

56449236

Online:

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description
• The Class of 1924 Book Fund Home Page