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Article: Reading Vasari.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2007
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Anne B. Barriault, Andrew Ladis, Norman E. Land, and Jeryldene M. Wood, eds., Reading Vasari.
London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2005. 296 pp. index. illus. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-85667-582-2.
Reading Vasari, a collection of twenty-one essays, was conceived as a tribute to Paul Barolsky, whose own readings of Vasari as mythmaker, in books such as Giotto's Father and the Family in Vasari's Lives (1994), have resulted in many scholars reconsidering why Vasari wrote as he did and how we should now read his book. Some of the essays were presented at a symposium held at the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, in November 2001; others were collected for ...