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Article: Art in Renaissance Italy.
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- April 1, 1997
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The Italian Renaissance revisited
Giorgio Vasari, in his Lives of the Artists of 1550, divided the art of the Italian Renaissance into three progressively worthier periods, each driven by the creative genius of its artists. And being a Tuscan he tended to treat Venice, Rome, and Naples as suburbs of Florence. Art in Renaissance Italy, written by two Renaissance specialists, one at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and the other at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, sets out to reintegrate the arts into the historical and social fabric of the distinctive dry-states where they flourished.
These states were divided into republics (Venice, ...