Giorgio Vasari
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Giorgio Vasari

The Man and the Book

  1. 392 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Giorgio Vasari

The Man and the Book

About this book

A striking account of Vasari's career, friendships, and contribution to the art of the Italian Renaissance

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. 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Photographic Sources
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Preface
  10. I. The Man
  11. II. The Book
  12. III. The Maniera Greca
  13. IV. The Maniera Tedesca
  14. V. The Critic
  15. VI. Assisi and Pisa
  16. VII. Arezzo and Florence
  17. VIII. Foreign Parts
  18. IX. Errors and Omissions
  19. X. Raphael and Michelangelo
  20. XI. Some Contemporaries
  21. XII. The Last Years
  22. Appendices
  23. Select Bibliography
  24. Index