Boase,Thomas Sherrer Ross.
Giorgio Vasari. The Man and the Book.
The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1971. Princeton, Washington, Princeton University Press - The National Gallery of Art
1979,
cm.19x25,
pp.XX,367, 227 illustrazioni in bianco e nero,
legatura editoriale in tutta tela, con sopraccoperta figurata.
Bollingen Series XXXV, 20.
Edizione Inglese.
Vasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Architects, Painters, and Sculptors, first published in 1550, fixed for three hundred years general European views about the art of the Renaissance, and its influence still lingers today. While much has been written about Vasari’s writings, comparatively few full-length studies have dealt with the man himself. In this book, T.S.R. Boase offers a compelling account of Vasari’s life and career. At the same time, Boase explores Vasari’s ideas about the art and artists he described in the two editions of his Lives, placing these reflections in their contemporary context and later developments in art history and criticism. The result is an important appraisal of Vasari’s achievement, which despite its imperfections is without parallel in the history of Western art.
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