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- ISBN 9780856675829
- Dimensions: 184 x 253mm
- Publication Date: 26 Oct 2005
- Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores the rich literary character and rhetorical strategies of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, which tells the story of Italian art as it unfolded from its beginnings in the fourteenth century to its pinnacle in Michelangelo and the art of the Academy in the mid-sixteenth century. The contributors of Reading Vasari propose ways to understand Vasari's text in the light of recent disputes over what is fact, fiction, or biography, and who may have read Vasari's editions when they were first published. The book isolates and analyses select threads from Vasari's luxurious textual tapestry: these range from architecture, cosmology and philosophy to biography, comedy, elegy and travelogue.
Anne B. Barriault is an art historian, writer and editor for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation, Richmond. Andrew T. Ladis is Franklin Professor of Art at the University of Georgia, Athens. Norman E. Land is Professor of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art History at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Jeryldene M. Wood is Associate Professor of Art History in Italian Renaissance Art, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
