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Title Reading Vasari / edited by Anne B. Barriault ... [et al.]
Publication Info London ; Athens, Georgia : Philip Wilson Publishers and Georgia Museum of Art ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
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 Watson Library Stacks  N7483.V37 R43 2005    REQUESTABLE
Description 296 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-293) and index
Contents Every painter paints himself / Hayden B. J. Maginnis -- Vasari's polemics -- Fear of fiction : the fun of reading Vasari / Paul Barolsky -- Vasari's first lights, flower of youth, and golden age -- The sorcerer's "O" and the painter who wasn't there / Andrew Ladis -- Vasari's sculptors of the second period : Mino de Fiesole / Shelley E. Zuraw -- Vasari on Signorelli : the origins of the "grand manner of painting" / Sara Nair James -- Francesco di Giorgio and Brunelleschi / Arthur F. Iorio -- Vasari's Bronzino : the paradigmatic academician / Fredrika H. Jacobs -- Vasari's Rome and the noble origins of art -- Sai di mano di santo o d'un angelo : Vasari's life of Fra Angelico / Diane Cole Ahl -- Vasari's Bramante and the renaissance of architecture in Rome / Jack Freiberg -- A scene from the life of Peruzzi / Ralph Lieberman -- "If he, with his genius, had lived in Rome" : Vasari and the transformative myth of Rome / Maureen Pelta -- Vasari's women : virtue and vice -- Vasari's mothers / Jeryldene M. Wood -- Vasari's women / Katherine McIver -- Vasari and the poetic imagination -- Piero di Cosimo : the egg-eating elegist / Anne B. Barriault -- Michelangelo's Snowman and the art of snow in Vasari's lives / April Oettinger -- Titian, Michelangelo, and Vasari / Norman E. Land -- Imagining the Renassiance : Browning reads Vasari / Roy Eriksen -- Vasari's humor -- Michelangelo ha ha / William E. Wallace -- Vasari on Vasari -- Lumi Fantastichi : the landscape ornament of Giorgio Vasari / Karen Goodchild -- Giorgio Vasari's studio : Diligenza e Amorevole Fatica / Liana De Girolami Cheney -- The delight of art : reading Vasari against himself / David Cast
Summary "The 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 of Reading Vasari propose ways to read Vasari's text in the light of recent disputes over what is fact, fiction, or biography. The essays isolate and analyse 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, and they offer fresh points of view that stem from their varied methodologies." "The contributors' diverse responses in Reading Vasari underscore the vast dimensions of Vasari's Lives and the promise that every generation of scholars has much to learn from this sixteenth-century master of the arts."--BOOK JACKET
Subjects Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574. Vite de' piáu eccellenti architetti, pittori at scultori italiani
Art, Renaissance -- Italy.
Art, Italian.
Artists -- Italy
Art and literature -- Italy -- History
Additional Authors Barriault, Anne B., 1952-
ISBN 0856675822
OCLC 56449236