Giorgio Vasari's Prefaces: Art and Theory- With a foreword by Wolfram Prinz

Liana De Girolami Cheney

Giorgio Vasari's  Prefaces: Art and Theory- With a foreword by Wolfram Prinz
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country
United States
Published
21 February 2012
Pages
333
ISBN
9781433107993

Giorgio Vasari’s Prefaces: Art and Theory- With a foreword by Wolfram Prinz

Liana De Girolami Cheney

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Giorgio Vasari’s Prefaces: Art and Theory provides students and scholars alike with the opportunity to study and understand the art, theory, and visual culture of Giorgio Vasari and sixteenth century Italy. For the first time all of Vasari’s Prefaces from the Lives of the Artists (1568) are included translated into English as well as in the original Italian. Also included is an English translation of Giovanni Battista Adriani’s letter to Giorgio Vasari enlightening Vasari on the art of the ancient masters.
Through the eyes of Vasari, this book captures the creative achievements of his fellow artists - how they adopt nature and the classical tradition as their muses and how they ingeniously interpret the secular and religious themes of the past and present. Vasari himself is lauded for the transformation of the artist from one of being a mere laborer to one who imbues his work with intellectual depth and is recognized as a creator of beautiful visual myths.

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