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