The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari

Editor: Cast, David J.
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing

Single-User Purchase Price: $149.95
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $224.92
ISBN: 978-1-4094-0847-5
Category: Arts & Leisure - Art & Art History
Image Count: 32
Book Status: Available
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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.

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Table of Contents

  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction - David J. Cast
  • 1 Vasari's Vite as a Collaborative Project - Charles Hope
  • 2 Vasari and Vincenzo Borghini - Robert Williams
  • 3 Giorgio Vasari: Artist, Designer, Collector - Liana de Girolami Cheney
  • 4 Vasari's Vita of Giotto - Norman E. Land
  • 5 Vasari's 1568 Life of Masaccio - Perri Lee Roberts
  • 6 Who is the Author of Michelangelo's Life? - William E. Wallace
  • 7 Vasari's Literary Artifice and the Triumph of Michelangelo's David - Paul Barolsky
  • 8 Bizarre Painters and Bohemian Poets: Poetic Imitation and Artistic Rivalry in Vasari's Biography of Piero di Cosimo - Karen Hope Goodchild
  • 9 Giorgio Vasari and the Art of Siena - Ann C. Huppert
  • 10 Venice and the Perfection of the Arts - Marjorie Och
  • 11 Giorgio Vasari and Francesco Salviati: Friendship and Art - Melinda Schlitt
  • 12 Rivals with a Common Cause: Vasari, Cellini, and the Literary Formulation of the Ideal Renaissance Artist - Victoria C. Gardner Coates
  • 13 Vasari on Imitation - Sharon Gregory
  • 14 Vasari and the Rhetoric of Decorum - Robert W. Gaston
  • 15 Rewriting Vasari - Lisa Pon
  • 16 Vasari's Lives and the Victorians - Hilary Fraser
  • Bibliography