The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics)

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Between his first and second editions, Vasari visited Venice and the second edition gave more attention to Venetian art (finally including Titian) without achieving a neutral point of view.

Derived from the name of a region in the Czech Republic inhabited by nomadic gypsies, the modern notion of bohemia designated a place where artists and disillusioned members of the bourgeoisie could intermingle with the poverty stricken, foreigners, racial minorities, homosexuals and anyone else on the margins of society. Chúng có khả năng cách nhiệt và kín gió tốt, giúp bảo vệ phòng ngủ khỏi tác động của thời tiết bên ngoài.Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. During the 1970s and 1980s, he continued to travel around the world, documenting his globetrotting through his Time Capsules. The campaign to isolate and dismiss the importance of Warhol’s persona in terms of his overall artistic contribution is much more systematic in recent academic writing. Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to paint; Giulio Romano's startling painting of Jove striking down the giants; and his friend Francesco Salviati, whose biography also tells us much about Vasari's own early career. He was born in Arezzo, on 30 July 1511, the first of six children of Antonio di Giorgio Vasari and Maddelena Tacci.

Donatello getting angry at Brunelleschi for his criticism of a crucifix, saying ‘Get some wood and do it yourself’, and then marveling at what Brunelleschi later produced.According to the historian Richard Goldthwaite, [18] Vasari was one of the earliest authors to use the term "competition" (or "concorrenza" in Italian) in its economic sense. It depicts Michelangelo's painstaking work on the Sistine Chapel, harassed by the impatient Pope Julius II. With this foray into sexploitation, Koons’s proclamations about Ilona and himself are most radical when taken at face value. Born to a cosmopolitan family, the son of a Cuban diplomat in Paris, he never dabbled in bohemianism. In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect.

His collection of biographies freely blended aesthetic theory, sociological description, fact and fiction. This same Fra Filippo being so lustful after women that Cosimo de’ Medici locked him up, only to have him escape to satisfy his desires. The first English translation was a short plagiarised version, published in 1685 and presented as William Aglionby’s own work under the title Painting Illustrated in Three Dialogues. This multipanelled work – deliberately reminiscent of Gerhard Richter’s grisaille 48 Portraits of Important Men – is Kippenberger’s first attempt to create an open system of images, signs, language, high and low cultural references and architectural motifs. In 155o he published his volume “The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects,” an exhaustive (and imaginative) record of the artists of his day, and those who came before.Many artists have consciously cultivated their public persona as a strategic, often antagonistic element in their art practice. O listen to the malignant Vasari, he says that the rivals of Titian were not men of valor when these … all … were painters of great importance. During this early yet hyperactive phase in his life, his indecision about his vocation produced a maelstrom of creative activities. Unlike these life artists, those under discussion here are uninterested in the documentary or narrative framing of their lives, nor are they committed to the veracity of the tales they use in their works. He harnessed the power of celebrity – his own, the celebrities he created, the culture’s growing thirst for celebrity as such – elevating it to a different status.