The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari
The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari
Editor: Cast, David J.
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
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ISBN: 978-1-4094-0847-5
Category: Arts & Leisure - Art & Art History
Image Count:
32
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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