Victims & villains in Vasari's lives / Andrew Ladis.
Victims & villains in Vasari's lives / Andrew Ladis.
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
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N709.2245/2
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English
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x, 159 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. The Sorcerer's "O" (and the Painter Who Wasn't There) -- Ch. 2. Hagiography and Obloquy for a Silver Age -- Ch. 3. Perugino and the Wages of Fortune -- Ch. 4. Identity and Imperfection in the Shadow of Michelangelo.
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
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North Carolina
Date Published
c2008.
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"Approaching Lives on Vasari's terms - as the grand story of the rebirth and triumph of art in Italy - Ladis argues that Vasari was not a mere compiler of facts, but a shrewd, self-confident author aware of the power of metaphor, conscious of both the historical context in which he wrote and the literary structure of his work, and ever-mindful of t...
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Victims & villains in Vasari's lives / Andrew Ladis.
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Bettie Allison Rand lectures in art history.
Bettie Allison Rand lectures in art history.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-153) and index.
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c2008.
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N709.2245/2
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9780807831328 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807831328 (cloth : alk. paper)
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709.2245
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991000418469702626
