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Author Kim, David Young, author.

Title The traveling artist in the Italian Renaissance : geography, mobility, and style / David Young Kim
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 293 pages) : 167 illustrations (some color), maps
Contents Introduction -- Part I: Mobility in Vasari's Lives -- Mobility and the problem of "influence" -- Contamination, stasis, and purging -- Deluge, difference, and dissemination -- Artifex Viator -- Part II: The path and limits of Varietà -- Varietà and the middle way -- The domain of style -- The mobile eyewitness -- Mobility, the senses, and the elision of style -- Epilogue
Summary "This important and innovative book examines artists' mobility as a critical aspect of Italian Renaissance art. It is well known that many eminent artists such as Cimabue, Giotto, Donatello, Lotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian traveled. This book is the first to consider the sixteenth-century literary descriptions of their journeys in relation to the larger Renaissance discourse concerning mobility, geography, the act of creation, and selfhood. David Young Kim carefully explores relevant themes in Giorgio Vasari's monumental Lives of the Artists, in particular how style was understood to register an artist's encounter with place. Through new readings of critical ideas, long-standing regional prejudices, and entire biographies, The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance provides a groundbreaking case for the significance of mobility in the interpretation of art and the wider discipline of art history"--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-281) and index
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Subject Artists -- Travel -- Italy -- History -- 16th century
Art, Italian -- 16th century.
Art, Renaissance -- Italy.
ART -- History -- General.
Art, Italian
Art, Renaissance
Artists -- Travel
Italy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300232554
0300232551
Other Titles Travelling artist in the Italian Renaissance : geography, mobility, and style