Giorgio Vasari
The Man and the Book
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1979
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-09905-7 (ISBN)
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-09905-7 (ISBN)
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A striking account of Vasari’s career, friendships, and contribution to the art of Renaissance Florence
Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Architects, Painters, and Sculptors, first published in 1550, fixed for three hundred years general European views about the art of the Renaissance, and its influence still lingers today. There is a mass of literature on Vasari’s writings but comparatively few full-length studies have dealt with the man himself. In this book, Boase offers a compelling account of Vasari’s life and career. At the same time, Boase explores Vasari’s ideas about the art and artists he described in the two editions of his Lives, relating them to their contemporary context and later developments in art history and criticism. The result is an informed and sympathetic appraisal of Vasari’s achievement, one which for all its human imperfections is without parallel in the history of Western art.
Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Architects, Painters, and Sculptors, first published in 1550, fixed for three hundred years general European views about the art of the Renaissance, and its influence still lingers today. There is a mass of literature on Vasari’s writings but comparatively few full-length studies have dealt with the man himself. In this book, Boase offers a compelling account of Vasari’s life and career. At the same time, Boase explores Vasari’s ideas about the art and artists he described in the two editions of his Lives, relating them to their contemporary context and later developments in art history and criticism. The result is an informed and sympathetic appraisal of Vasari’s achievement, one which for all its human imperfections is without parallel in the history of Western art.
T.S.R. Boase (1898–1974) was an eminent art historian and the author of many books. Over a long and distinguished career, he served as director of the Courtauld Institute, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford, and president of Magdalen College, Oxford.
| Reihe/Serie | Bollingen Series |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 228 b/w illus. |
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-09905-7 / 0691099057 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-09905-7 / 9780691099057 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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