Noah Charney

Ingrid Drake Rowland

An accomplished painter, architect and diplomat, Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is best known for'Lives of the Artists', his classic account of the great masters-an extraordinary book that invented the genre of artistic biography, single-handedly established the canon of Italian Renaissance art and founded the cults of Raphael, Leonardo and Michelangelo that persist to this day. Vasari positioned art as an intellectual pursuit instead of just a technical skill, teaching us to view artists as geniuses and visionaries rather than as simple craftsmen. Immersing readers in the world of the Medici and the popes, Ingrid Rowland and Noah Charney show the great works of Western culture taking shape amid the thrilling culture of Renaissance Italy.

Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art

The Collector of Lives

Mario Pereira

Noriko Matsubara

David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art

Rowland

Craig Hanson

Allie Terry

A scholar's desk, a warlord's castle, a pope's altar, the mouth of a volcano: in the minds of early modern Europeans, all evoked memories of ancient times, from Egyptian pharaohs to Roman emperors. The essays in this catalog explore the influence of antiquity on a broad spectrum of artistic production in Europe, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. They include investigations of proto-scientific imagery, Ovidian myth, allegorical devices, the papal banquet, and the growing importance of Greece to understandings of the ancient world. Together, these essays reveal much about the continual remaking of the antique in the visual culture of Europe.

The Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe

Livio Pestilli

Sebastian Schütze

«Napoli è tutto il mondo». Neapolitan Art and Culture from Humanism to the Enlightenment. International Conference (Rome, 19-21 June 2003)

A collection of essays on Renaissance art and culture covers the careers and work of Caravaggio, Corrieggio, Botticelli, Titian, Leonardo, and many others, exploring themes of eroticism and sexuality in literature as well as the Renaissance fascination with ancient Egypt.

The Sacred and the Profane in the Renaissance

From Heaven to Arcadia

Eugenio Canone

The Laboratory of the Eroici Furori of Giordano Bruno

The Alchemy of Extremes

Agostino Chigi

v.48: Biondo, Flavio. Scritti inediti e rari di Biondo Flavio... 1927.

Studi e testi

Neapolitan art and culture from humanism to the enlightenment : international conference, Rome, June 19-21, 2003

Napoli è tutto il mondo

Ingrid Drake Rowland

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