The collector of lives : Giorgio Vasari and the invention of art / Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney.
Rowland, Ingrid D. (Ingrid Drake), author.; Charney, Noah, author.
2017
N7483.V37 R69 2017 (Mapit)
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Title The collector of lives : Giorgio Vasari and the invention of art / Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney.
Author Rowland, Ingrid D. (Ingrid Drake), author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780393241310 (hardcover)
0393241319 (hardcover)
Published New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Language English
Description viii, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number N7483.V37 R69 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 709.2 B
Summary "Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents--a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar--but he is best known for Lives of the Artists, the classic account that singlehandedly invented the genre of artistic biography and established the canon of Italian Renaissance art. Before Vasari's extraordinary book, art was considered a technical skill rather than an intellectual pursuit, and artists were mere decorators and craftsmen. It was through Vasari's visionary writings that artists like Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo came to be regarded as great masters of life as well as art, their creative genius celebrated as a divine gift. Their enduring reputations testify to Vasari's profound yet unspoken influence on western culture. An advisor to kings and pontiffs--and a confidant to Titian, Donatello, and more--Vasari enjoyed an exhilarating career amid the thrilling culture of Renaissance Italy"--Inside dust jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Charney, Noah, author.
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The lost Leonardo
How to read Vasari's Lives
From potters to painters: Vasari's forebears and first teachers
From Arezzo to Florence
Plunder and plague
Artist versus artist: demonic beetles and morality tales
The opportunities of war
Back among the Medici
Rome after the sack
A Florentine painter
Murder and redemption
The wandering artist
Florence, Venice, Rome
Renaissance men: Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo
Symbols and shifting tastes
To Naples
The birth of Lives
Renaissance reading
The new Vitruvius
Sempre in moto
Shake-up in Florence
The Accademia del Disegno and the Lives revised
On the road
Second Lives
Still wandering
Between the cupola and the Sala Regia
A royal hall
the legacy of Lives
Circling back to Giotto's O
Conclusion: Cerca trova.

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