Giorgio Vasari
Subtitle: la fabrique de l'allégorie : culture et fonction de la personnification au Cinquecento
By: Antonella Fenech Kroke ; préface de Philippe Morel
Contributors: Morel, Philippe
Series: Biblioteca dell'Archivum romanicum. Serie I, Storia, letteratura, paleografia -- 380
Publisher: Leo S. Olschki
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Firenze
Language: fre; ita
Number of pages: 553
ISBN-13: 9788822260550
Subjects: Symbolism in art; Criticism and interpretation; Personification in art
Description: Giorgio Vasari was one of the most interesting and prolific creators of embodiments of the sixteenth century. His allegorical figures speak the same language, rhetoric, literature and contemporary philosophy, scholar and courtier of the world which is an active Vasari. This paper aims to study the reasons and forms of exuberance that characterize this allegorical language, the first of its encoding, which begins at the end of the century, with the Iconology of Cesare Ripa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 491-540) and index.