Vasari's Words: The 'Lives of the Artists' as a History of Ideas in the Italian Renaissance

Author:   Douglas Biow (University of Texas, Austin)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   256
Publication Date:   18 October 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Douglas Biow (University of Texas, Austin)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781108472050


ISBN 10:   1108472052
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   18 October 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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'This brisk, engaging, and critically engaged study reveals a Vasari we probably suspected was there, but now is seen to have been writing himself.' Paul Baxa, European History Quarterly


'This brisk, engaging, and critically engaged study reveals a Vasari we probably suspected was there, but now is seen to have been writing himself.' Paul Baxa, European History Quarterly 'This brisk, engaging, and critically engaged study reveals a Vasari we probably suspected was there, but now is seen to have been writing himself.' Paul Baxa, European History Quarterly


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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.

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