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The collector of lives Giorgio Vasari and the invention of art

"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, the classic account that singlehandedly invented the genre of artistic biography and established the canon of Italian Renaissance art. Before Vas...

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Main Authors: Rowland, Ingrid D. (Ingrid Drake) (Author), Charney, Noah (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Vasari, Giorgio, > 1511-1574.
Artists > Italy > Biography.
Biographers > Italy > Biography.
Renaissance > Italy.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • The lost Leonardo
  • How to read Vasari's Lives
  • From potters to painters: Vasari's forebears and first teachers
  • From Arezzo to Florence
  • Plunder and plague
  • Artist versus artist: demonic beetles and morality tales
  • The opportunities of war
  • Back among the Medici
  • Rome after the sack
  • A Florentine painter
  • Murder and redemption
  • The wandering artist
  • Florence, Venice, Rome
  • Renaissance men: Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo
  • Symbols and shifting tastes
  • To Naples
  • The birth of Lives
  • Renaissance reading
  • The new Vitruvius
  • Sempre in moto
  • Shake-up in Florence
  • The Accademia del Disegno and the Lives revised
  • On the road
  • Second Lives
  • Still wandering
  • Between the cupola and the Sala Regia
  • A royal hall
  • the legacy of Lives
  • Circling back to Giotto's O
  • Conclusion: Cerca trova.

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