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Vasari's Words - The 'Lives of the Artists' as a History of Ideas in the Italian Renaissance (Hardcover)
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Vasari's Words - The 'Lives of the Artists' as a History of Ideas in the Italian Renaissance (Hardcover)
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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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