Giorgio Vasari: Art and History - Rilegato

Rubin, Patricia Lee

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0300049099 ISBN 13: 9780300049091

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 1995

Riassunto

Vasari's Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects are and always have been central texts for the study of the Italian Renaissance. They can and should be read in many ways. Since their publication in the mid-sixteenth century, they have been a source of both information and pleasure. Their immediacy after more than four hundred years is a measure of Vasari's success. He wished the artists of his day, himself included, to be famous. He made the association of artistry and genius, of renaissance and the arts so familiar that they now seem inevitable. In this book Patricia Rubin argues that both the inevitability and the immediacy should be questioned. To read Vasari without historical perspective results in a limited and distorted view of The Lives.
Rubin shows that Vasari had distinct ideas about the nature of his task as a biographer, about the importance of interpretation, judgment, and example - about the historian's art. Vasari's principles and practices as a writer are examined here, as are their sources in Vasari's experiences as an artist.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Patricia Lee Rubin is Lecturer in Renaissance Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0300049099
• ISBN 13: 9780300049091
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 458