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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © Copyright 1999 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0098-2474
- eISSN
- 2352-6963
- DOI
- 10.1163/23526963-90000207
- Publisher site
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Abstract
IMAGlES OF F AMlE AND CHANGING FORTUNlE IN THlE FIRST AND §lECOND EDITIONS OF V ASARtS ViTE DEBORAH eIBELLI GIORGIO V ASARI'S REVISION of Le vite de' piu eccellenti pittori, scultori, et architettori italiani, da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri of 1568 has served to supplant the first edition of 1550 as the definitive source for the biographies of Renaissance artists; however, the two editions are hardly identical in their evaluative criticism of the artists' fame and varied reputations or changing fortunes. Thus each edition has distinct implications for the history of art.! Vasari's changing attitudes toward fate and renown not only affected his assessment of numerous artists but also contributed to changes he made in the visual components of the publication. A comparison of the iconographic symbolism of the introductory woodcuts and imagery in the 1550 and 1568 editions forms the topic of this study: the woodcut imagery of the tide pages found at the beginning of each edition, the endpiece of the first edition, as weIl as the frontispiece self-portrait of the author and portraits of artists included in the second edition. Such a comparison serves to underscore Vasari's ultimate conviction that farne after the death
Journal
Explorations in Renaissance Culture – Brill
Published: Dec 2, 1999