The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari
| By: | Cast, David J, Professor |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781409408475 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781472413925 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provide, at the 500th anniversary of his birth, a comprehensive assessment of the current state of scholarship on this important-and still controversial-artist and writer. The contributors examine the life and work of Vasari as an artist, architect, courtier, academician, and as a biographer of artists. They also explore his legacy, including an analysis of the reception of his work over the last five centuries.
Among the topics specifically addressed here are an assessment of the current controversy as to how much of Vasari's 'Lives' was actually written by Vasari