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The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari
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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.
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History of ArchitectureTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Vasari’s Vite as a Collaborative Project
- 2 Vasari and Vincenzo Borghini
- 3 Giorgio Vasari: Artist, Designer, Collector
- 4 Vasari’s Vita of Giotto
- 5 Vasari’s 1568 Life of Masaccio
- 6 Who is the Author of Michelangelo’s Life?
- 7 Vasari’s Literary Artifice and the Triumph of Michelangelo’s David
- 8 Bizarre Painters and Bohemian Poets: Poetic Imitation and Artistic Rivalry in Vasari’s Biography of Piero di Cosimo
- 9 Giorgio Vasari and the Art of Siena
- 10 Venice and the Perfection of the Arts
- 11 Giorgio Vasari and Francesco Salviati: Friendship and Art
- 12 Rivals with a Common Cause: Vasari, Cellini, and the Literary Formulation of the Ideal Renaissance Artist
- 13 Vasari on Imitation
- 14 Vasari and the Rhetoric of Decorum
- 15 Rewriting Vasari
- 16 Vasari’s Lives and the Victorians
- Bibliography
- Index
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