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Vasari's Words: The 'Lives of the Artists' as a History of Ideas in the Italian Renaissance

Autor Douglas Biow
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 oct 2018
In this book, Douglas Biow analyzes Vasari's Lives of the Artists - often considered the first great work of art history in the modern era - from a new perspective.  He focuses on key words and shows how they address a variety of compelling, culturally determined ideas circulating in late Renaissance Italy. The keywords chosen for this study investigate five seemingly divergent, yet still interconnected, ideas. What does it mean to have a 'profession', professione, and possess 'genius', ingegno, in the visual arts? How is 'speed', prestezza, valued among visual artists of the period and how is 'time', tempo, conceptualized in Vasari's narrative and descriptions of visual art? Finally, how is the 'night', notte, conceived and visually represented as a distinct span of time in The Lives? Written in an engaging manner for specialists and non-specialists alike, Vasari's Words places the Lives - a truly foundational and innovative book of Western culture - within the context of the modern discipline of intellectual history.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108472050
ISBN-10: 1108472052
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 41 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1. Professione/profession; 2. Ingegno/genius; 3. Prestezza/speed; 4. Tempo/time.

Recenzii

'This brisk, engaging, and critically engaged study reveals a Vasari we probably suspected was there, but now is seen to have been writing himself.' Paul Baxa, European History Quarterly

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Descriere

Explores through keywords how Vasari's Lives is designed to address a variety of compelling, culturally determined ideas.