ABSTRACT

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; and explorations of Vasari's relationships with, as well as reports about, contemporaries, including Cellini, Michelangelo and Giotto, among less familiar names. The geographic scope takes in not only Florence, the city traditionally privileged in Italian Renaissance art history, but also less commonly studied geographical venues such as Siena and Venice.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

ByDavid J. Cast

chapter 1|12 pages

Vasari’sViteasaCollaborativeProject

ByCharles Hope

chapter 2|18 pages

VasariandVincenzoBorghini

ByRobert Williams

chapter 3|36 pages

GiorgioVasari:Artist,Designer,Collector

ByLiana de Girolami Cheney

chapter 4|14 pages

Vasari’sVitaofGiotto

ByNorman E. Land

chapter 5|16 pages

Vasari’s1568LifeofMasaccio

ByPerri Lee Roberts

chapter 6|14 pages

WhoistheAuthorofMichelangelo’sLife?

ByWilliam E. Wallace

chapter 7|8 pages

Vasari’sLiteraryArtificeandtheTriumphofMichelangelo’sDavid

ByPaul Barolsky

chapter 9|24 pages

GiorgioVasariandtheArtofSiena

ByAnn C. Huppert

chapter 10|26 pages

VeniceandthePerfectionoftheArts

chapter 11|20 pages

GiorgioVasariandFrancescoSalviati:FriendshipandArt

ByMelinda Schlitt

chapter 13|22 pages

VasarionImitation

BySharon Gregory

chapter 14|16 pages

VasariandtheRhetoricofDecorum

ByRobert W. Gaston

chapter 15|16 pages

RewritingVasari

ByLisa Pon

chapter 16|18 pages

Vasari’sLivesandtheVictorians

ByHilary Fraser