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Vasari and the Sacred Image - Sally J. Cornelison

Vasari and the Sacred Image

Renovating Santa Maria della Pieve in Arezzo
Buch | Softcover
350 Seiten
2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
9781009699020 (ISBN)
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Based upon a rich and previously underexplored body of source material, this book examines works Giorgio Vasari either thoughtfully designed for the Pieve. It expands our understanding of painting in Counter-Reformation Italy and the artistic production of one of the most important personalities of the Italian Renaissance.
Vasari and the Sacred Image explores the iconography, patronage, function, meaning, and afterlife of Giorgio Vasari's paintings for, and architectural modification of, one of the most important churches in his hometown of Arezzo. Based upon a rich and previously underexplored body of primary, secondary, and visual source material, this book examines works Vasari either thoughtfully designed for the Pieve, or resourcefully retrofitted from previous commissions, thereby promoting himself and his family, his patrons and associates, his artistic predecessors, and public and private devotions to local saints and their relics. Cornelison delves deeply into the history and iconography of key altarpieces, relating them to the broader issues of religious tradition and personal and artistic commemoration. She demonstrates that Vasari strove to create a cohesive sacred environment at the Pieve that was every bit as much steeped in Aretine sacred and visual tradition as it was in a climate of ecclesiastical reform.

Sally J. Cornelison is Professor and Director of the Florence Graduate Program in Italian Renaissance Art at Syracuse University. A specialist in the history of Italian late medieval and Renaissance religious art, she has published extensively, and her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, American Philosophical Society, Renaissance Society of America, and Getty Research Institute.

Introduction; 1. Renovation: Vasari at Arezzo's Pieve and cathedral; 2. Vasari's Machina Aretina: the high altar; 3. The Cappella di Casa Vasari: sacred imagery and family identity on the high altar; 4. Renaissance recycling: the Albergotti altar; 5. Reconstructing the Camaiani abd Fraternita altars; 6. Reframing Mary: Vasari's Pieve altars in dialogue; 7. Commemoration: Vasari in the Pieve; Appendices; Bibliography.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.5.2026
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Kunst / Musik / Theater Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-13 9781009699020 / 9781009699020
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