Victims and Villains in Vasari's Lives (Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History) by Andrew T. Ladis - 2008-01-31

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University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

ISBN: 9780807831328
UNC Press Books | 30 March 2008
Hardback | 159 pages
This title reconsiders a seminal art history text. 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… Read More

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The University of North Carolina Press, 2008-03-10. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!