The traveling artist in the Italian Renaissance
Subtitle: geography, mobility, and style
By: David Young Kim
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780300198676
Subjects: Travel; Artists; Italian Art; Renaissance Art; History
Description: "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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-281) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I: Mobility in Vasari's Lives; title: Mobility and the problem of "influence"; title: Contamination, stasis, and purging; title: Deluge, difference, and dissemination; title: Artifex Viator; title: Part II: The path and limits of Varietà; title: Varietà and the middle way; title: The domain of style; title: The mobile eyewitness; title: Mobility, the senses, and the elision of style; title: Epilogue.