Victims And Villains In Vasari S Lives
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Victims And Villains In Vasari S Lives
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Author : Andrew Ladis
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2015-12-01
Victims And Villains In Vasari S Lives written by Andrew Ladis and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with Art categories.
Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Artists (1550, 1568) has been a key subject of study for students of the Italian Renaissance over the hundreds of years since its publication. It has maintained a powerful grip on the historical imagination and continues to influence the way scholars treat the Renaissance, its artists, and the entire intellectual enterprise of Western art. Focusing on Vasari's literary and narrative achievements, Andrew Ladis turns to Vasari's villains, rather than his heroes, to demonstrate the biographer's foremost interest in glorifying Michelangelo. Approaching Lives on Vasari's terms--as the grand story of the rebirth and triumph of art in Italy--Ladis argues that Vasari was not a mere compiler of facts, but a shrewd, self-confident author aware of the power of metaphor. With a literary reading of the text, Ladis analyzes Vasari's motives and methods as an attempt to portray the great Michelangelo as a Christlike exemplum of ultimate light and goodness. Through biographic details both real and invented, Vasari presents all other artists as various players with varying degrees of heroic and villainous value. Antiheroic characters such as Buffalmacco, Lippi, and Castagno, Ladis argues, serve to accentuate the contrasting greatness of Michelangelo.
The Collector Of Lives Giorgio Vasari And The Invention Of Art
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Author : Noah Charney
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2017-10-03
The Collector Of Lives Giorgio Vasari And The Invention Of Art written by Noah Charney and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Readers curious about the making of Renaissance art, its cast of characters and political intrigue, will find much to relish in these pages.” —Wall Street Journal Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) was a man of many talents—a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar—but he is best known for Lives of the Artists, which singlehandedly established the canon of Italian Renaissance art. Before Vasari’s extraordinary book, art was considered a technical skill, and artists were mere decorators and craftsmen. It was through Vasari’s visionary writings that Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo came to be regarded as great masters of life as well as art, their creative genius celebrated as a divine gift. Lauded by Sarah Bakewell as “insightful, gripping, and thoroughly enjoyable,” The Collector of Lives reveals how one Renaissance scholar completely redefined how we look at art.
Redreaming The Renaissance
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Author : Mary Lindemann
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2024-05-17
Redreaming The Renaissance written by Mary Lindemann and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-17 with History categories.
Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbreaking work of Guido Ruggiero to explore the cross-fertilization between these two disciplines, using the textual world of the Italian Renaissance as proving ground. In this volume, these disciplines blur, as they did for early moderns, who did not always distinguish between the historical and literary significance of the texts they read and produced. Literature here is broadly conceived to include not only belles lettres, but also other forms of artful writing that flourished in the period, including philosophical writings on dreams and prophecy; life-writing; religious debates; menu descriptions and other food writing; diaries, news reports, ballads, and protest songs; and scientific discussions. The twelve essays in this collection examine the role that the volume’s dedicatee has played in bringing the disciplines of history and literary studies into provocative conversation, as well as the methodology needed to sustain and enrich this conversation.
Michelangelo In The New Millennium
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Author : Tamara Smithers
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-03-11
Michelangelo In The New Millennium written by Tamara Smithers and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-11 with Art categories.
Michelangelo in the New Millennium addresses the mobility and flexibility of Michelangelo’s art regarding placement and intention, considers the artist’s late papal painting commissions, and probes deeper into his early religious works.
The Ashgate Research Companion To The Counter Reformation
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Author : Alexandra Bamji
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-23
The Ashgate Research Companion To The Counter Reformation written by Alexandra Bamji and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-23 with History categories.
'In the last two decades, the history of the Counter-Reformation has been stretched and re-shaped in numerous directions. Reflecting the variety and innovation that characterize studies of early modern Catholicism today, this volume incorporates topics as diverse as life cycle and community, science and the senses, the performing and visual arts, material objects and print culture, war and the state, sacred landscapes and urban structures. Moreover, it challenges the conventional chronological parameters of the Counter-Reformation and introduces the reader to the latest research on global Catholicism. The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation presents a comprehensive examination of recent scholarship on early modern Catholicism in its many guises. It examines how the Tridentine reforms inspired conflict and conversion, and evaluates lives and identities, spirituality, culture and religious change. This wide-ranging and original research guide is a unique resource for scholars and students of European and transnational history.
The Artist As Murderer
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Author : Norman E. Land
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-11-25
The Artist As Murderer written by Norman E. Land and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-25 with Art categories.
The 4th century BC Greek painter Parrhasius murdered his model--an old man who was his slave--to achieve, so the story goes, a more lifelike depiction of nature. The tale has inspired similar, more elaborate stories about both well known and obscure artists--including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Rubens. Elements of the tale have appeared in theater, literature and film, as well as in comments by painters, historians, critics and anatomists. Challenging the archetype of the artist as a sympathetic lover of nature, this book examines the artist as cruel and murderous in service of art and ambition, and indirectly addresses a different understanding of the relationship between art and life.
Raphael And The Redefinition Of Art In Renaissance Italy
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Author : Robert Williams
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-03
Raphael And The Redefinition Of Art In Renaissance Italy written by Robert Williams and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-03 with Art categories.
A comprehensive re-assessment of Raphael's artistic achievement and the ways in which it transformed the idea of what art is.
Wives Widows Mistresses And Nuns In Early Modern Italy
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Author : Katherine A. McIver
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Wives Widows Mistresses And Nuns In Early Modern Italy written by Katherine A. McIver and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Art categories.
Through a visually oriented investigation of historical (in)visibility in early modern Italy, the essays in this volume recover those women - wives, widows, mistresses, the illegitimate - who have been erased from history in modern literature, rendered invisible or obscured by history or scholarship, as well as those who were overshadowed by male relatives, political accident, or spatial location. A multi-faceted invisibility of the individual and of the object is the thread that unites the chapters in this volume. Though some women chose to be invisible, for example the cloistered nun, these essays show that in fact, their voices are heard or seen through their commissions and their patronage of the arts, which afforded them some visibility. Invisibility is also examined in terms of commissions which are no longer extant or are inaccessible. What is revealed throughout the essays is a new way of looking at works of art, a new way to visualize the past by addressing representational invisibility, the marginalized or absent subject or object and historical (in)visibility to discover who does the 'looking,' and how this shapes how something or someone is visible or invisible. The result is a more nuanced understanding of the place of women and gender in early modern Italy.
Reading Vasari
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Author : Anne B. Barriault
language : en
Publisher: Tauris Parke
Release Date : 2005-12-10
Reading Vasari written by Anne B. Barriault and has been published by Tauris Parke this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12-10 with Art categories.
Giorgio Vasari chronicled the story of Renaissance art in Italy as it unfolded during the 14th century. This book looks at recent disputes over what is fact or fiction, or who may have read Vasari's editions when they were first published. It covers all aspects of Vasari's criticism, from architecture and art to biography and travelogue.
The Cults Of Raphael And Michelangelo
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Author : Tamara Smithers
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-07-29
The Cults Of Raphael And Michelangelo written by Tamara Smithers and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-29 with Art categories.
This study explores the phenomenon of the cults of Raphael and Michelangelo in relation to their death, burial, and posthumous fame—or second life—from their own times through the nineteenth century. These two artists inspired fervent followings like no other artists before them. The affective response of those touched by the potency of the physical presence of their art- works, personal effects, and remains—or even touched by the power of their creative legacy—opened up new avenues for artistic fame, divination, and commemoration. Within this cultural framework, this study charts the elevation of the status of dozens of other artists in Italy through funerals and tomb memorialization, many of which were held and made in response to those of Raphael and Michelangelo. By bringing together disparate sources and engaging material as well as a variety of types of artworks and objects, this book will be of great interest to anyone who studies early modern Italy, art history, cultural history, and Italian studies.