Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari

by Paul Barolsky

Book Overview

Art history as we know it would not exist without Vasari, and Barolsky shows us that something of the same claim should be made for literary history. He demonstrates the ways in which a literary approach to Vasari's book deepens our understanding of its historical, art-historical, and imaginative character. Why Mona Lisa Smiles discusses Vasari's shrewd, witty, intimate awareness of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio and relates the Lives to the works...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271026154
• ISBN13: 9780271026152
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 8.5"