Giorgio Vasari and the Birth of the Museum
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (578 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073RQ7LDD |
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| Number of Pages | : | 407 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The constant use of Vasari's Vite and an individual adherence to the main themes of collecting, preserving, and exhibiting tie this collection together and provide well-articulated and researched chapters. Readers are led through logical, interesting, and strongly source-focused articles written by Vasari specialists. With his Lives Vasari created the intellectual context for the study of individual artists' careers within a narrative of art's history, and that narrative was then enshrined within museums.' CAA reviews 'Within a broad museological and museographical perspective, this book has the merit of setting up a dialogue among the conceptual categories of collecting, conservation, display, and museology and of demonstrating how fundamental the multiface
This volume is a fundamental addition to the museum studies literature and a welcome enhancement to the scholarly industry on Giorgio Vasari.. Uniting specialists of Giorgio Vasari with scholars of historical museology, this collection of essays presents a cross-disciplinary overview of Vasari?s approaches to the collecting and display of art, artifacts and memorabilia. Giorgio Vasari and the Birth of the Museum offers the first dedicated and comprehensive study of Vasari?s original contributions to the making of museums, addressing the subject from the full range of aspects - collecting, installation, conceptual-historical - in which his influence is strongly felt. Although the main focus of the book is on the mid-late 16th century, contributors also bring to light that Vasari?s museology enjoyed a substantial afterlife well into the modern museum era
Maia Wellington Gahtan is Program Director, MA Museum Studies at the Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici, Florence, Italy.