| The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari Contributor(s): Cast, David J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1409408477 ISBN-13: 9781409408475 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $170.29 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - General - Art | History - Renaissance - Architecture | History - General |
| Dewey: 709.2 |
| LCCN: 2013005985 |
| Physical Information: 354 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provide, at the 500th anniversary of his birth, a comprehensive assessment of the current state of scholarship on this important-and still controversial-artist and writer. The contributors examine the life and work of Vasari as an artist, architect, courtier, academician, and as a biographer of artists. They also explore his legacy, including an analysis of the reception of his work over the last five centuries. Among the topics specifically addressed here are an assessment of the current controversy as to how much of Vasari's 'Lives' was actually written by Vasari; and explorations of Vasari's relationships with, as well as reports about, contemporaries, including Cellini, Michelangelo and Giotto, among less familiar names. The geographic scope takes in not only Florence, the city traditionally privileged in Italian Renaissance art history, but also less commonly studied geographical venues such as Siena and Venice. |