Victims and Villains in Vasari's Lives |
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| Author:
| Ladis, Andrew |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-3132-8 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2008 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $112.00 |
Book Description:
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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. 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. Through biographic details both real and invented, Vasari presents all other artists as various players...
More DescriptionGiorgio 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. 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. Through biographic details both real and invented, Vasari presents all other artists as various players with varying degrees of heroic and villainous value. Antiheroic characters such as Buffalmacco, Lippi, and Castagno, Ladis argues, serve to accentuate the contrasting greatness of Michelangelo.