Giorgio Vasari (eBook)

The Man and the Book

Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase (Autor)

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2023
392 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-25222-3 (ISBN)

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A striking account of Vasari's career, friendships, and contribution to the art of the Italian RenaissanceVasari'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. While much has been written about Vasari's writings, comparatively few full-length studies have dealt with the man himself. In this book, T.S.R. 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, placing these reflections in their contemporary context and later developments in art history and criticism. The result is an important appraisal of Vasari's achievement, which despite its imperfections is without parallel in the history of Western art.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.10.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
• Reihe/Serie: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
• Zusatzinfo: 228 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Schlagworte: Arezzo: • —Churches: S. Agostino • Clement VII, Pope (Giulio de’ Medici) • Cortona • Francia, Francesco • Genga, Girolamo • Giuliano da Maiano • Guillaume de Marcillat • Julius II, Pope • Leonardo da Vinci • Leo X, Pope (Cardinal Giovanni de Medici) • London: National Gallery • Medici, de’: family • Montaguti: family • Passerini, Cardinal Silvio • Perugia • Piero della Francesca • Pollastra, Giovanni • Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) • Robbia, Luca della • Signorelli: Egidio • Tacci, Maddalena dei • Urbino • Vasari: Antonio (brother) • —Vatican: Belvedere • Viti, Timoteo • —works: Creation of Adam
• ISBN-10: 0-691-25222-X / 069125222X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-25222-3 / 9780691252223