Giorgio Vasari : : The Man and the Book / / Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts ; 35
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 228 b/w illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Photographic Sources --; Abbreviations --; Preface --; I. The Man --; II. The Book --; III. The Maniera Greca --; IV. The Maniera Tedesca --; V. The Critic --; VI. Assisi and Pisa --; VII. Arezzo and Florence --; VIII. Foreign Parts --; IX. Errors and Omissions --; X. Raphael and Michelangelo --; XI. Some Contemporaries --; XII. The Last Years --; Appendices --; Select Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691252223; 9783111292908
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691252223?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase.

A striking account of Vasari’s career, friendships, and contribution to the art of the Italian RenaissanceVasari’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.