This Hardcover Book item from Princeton University Press was reviewed on 24-Oct-2008.
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1) Hardcover Book Giorgio Vasari by Princeton University Press. This is much more than a biography of Vasari. It uses Vasari as the pivot around which the author develops an intricate account of art and cultural politics in Florence and more generally Tuscany, in the sixteenth-century. The relationships between Vasari and Michelangelo, and Grand Duke Cosimo are well-developed and informative. For art historians, there will be little new inforamtion revealed, but it is all presented in a beautiful package. Ralph Lieberman, a highly distinguished scholar of Venetian architecture in his own right, here acts in another capacity, in which he is equally as distinguished, photographer. The photos give us Florence as we always want to see it, romantic, dramatic, but with an eye toward architectural detail.¤ 2) Hardcover Book Giorgio Vasari by Princeton University Press. Well-known for his paintings and his book "The Lives of the Artists", Giorgio Vasari also served as court architect to Grand Duke Cosimo I de´Medici, contributing to such symbolic buildings as the Uffizi in Florence. This is a survey of Vasari´s architecture. By focusing on the architect´s service to his distinguished patrons and his collaboration with other architects, it reveals how Vasari combined design, political meaning and a clear sense of history to create buildings so appealing to modern students of architecture. In addition to the Uffizi, chapters are devoted to Vasari´s Del Monte projects in Monte San Savino and Rome, the Corridoio and the renovation of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, religious architecture throughout Tuscany, and urban projects in Pisa and Arezzo.¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 21-Nov-2008, 06910328669780691032863, 660-8 |
