Vasari's Words

Auteur

Douglas Biow is the Superior Oil Company-Linward Shivers Centennial Professor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Director of the Center for European Studies at The University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of five prior books, including most recently The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy (2006), In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous (2010), and On the Importance of Being an Individual: Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards (2015). He has been the recipient of a number of scholarly awards, including NEH, Delmas, and Guggenheim Fellowship.

Texte du rabat

Explores through keywords how Vasari's Lives is designed to address a variety of compelling, culturally determined ideas.

Résumé
This book explores through keywords how Vasari's Lives is designed to address from beginning to end a variety of compelling ideas circulating in Renaissance Italy. Written in an entertaining, down-to-earth manner for specialists and non-specialists, it places the Lives within the context of the modern discipline of intellectual history.

Contenu

1. Professione/profession; 2. Ingegno/genius; 3. Prestezza/speed; 4. Tempo/time.