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VASARI'S EARLY DECORATIVE CYCLES: THE VENETIAN COMMISSIONS PART I

VASARI'S EARLY DECORATIVE CYCLES: THE VENETIAN COMMISSIONS PART I V ASARt S EARLY DECORATIVE CYCLES~ THE VENETIAN COMMISSIONS PART! LIANA DE GIROLAMI CHENEY In memory of Veda Cobb-Stevens "SETESTORICO, poeta, filosofo e pittore" ("You are a historian, poet, philosopher, as well as painter") (Aretino, Lettere 1: 79): in this manner, Pietro Aretino, Cavalier di Rodi, praises his compatriot painter, Giorgio Vasari, and invites him to visit Venice.! This study considers two commissions that Vasari executed in Venice in 1541-42-one secular (the apparato or stage settings for Aretino's comedy La Talanta) and the other religious (the ceiling decoration of Giovanni Cornaro's nuptial chamber). Unfortunately, these two decorative structures have been dismantled or destroyed. Their reconstruction rests mostly on Vasari's descriptions, along with a few surviving drawings and paintings. Examination of these two Venetian commissions, however, reveals Vasari's formation of a repertoire of personifications and a new artistic formula, or quadro riportato, for decorative cycles. 2 Vasari's adroit inventiveness in the creation of a new type of decorative design and his resourceful imagination in the embellishment of emblematic imagery contribute to the artistic richness of sixteenth-century art. A temporary decoration, the Venetian stage designs or apparato were demolished after the carnival in 1542. Vasari explains how he attempted to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Explorations in Renaissance Culture Brill

VASARI'S EARLY DECORATIVE CYCLES: THE VENETIAN COMMISSIONS PART I

Cheney, Liana De Girolami
Explorations in Renaissance Culture , Volume 28 (2): 239 – Dec 2, 2002
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© Copyright 2002 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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V ASARt S EARLY DECORATIVE CYCLES~ THE VENETIAN COMMISSIONS PART! LIANA DE GIROLAMI CHENEY In memory of Veda Cobb-Stevens "SETESTORICO, poeta, filosofo e pittore" ("You are a historian, poet, philosopher, as well as painter") (Aretino, Lettere 1: 79): in this manner, Pietro Aretino, Cavalier di Rodi, praises his compatriot painter, Giorgio Vasari, and invites him to visit Venice.! This study considers two commissions that Vasari executed in Venice in 1541-42-one secular (the apparato or stage settings for Aretino's comedy La Talanta) and the other religious (the ceiling decoration of Giovanni Cornaro's nuptial chamber). Unfortunately, these two decorative structures have been dismantled or destroyed. Their reconstruction rests mostly on Vasari's descriptions, along with a few surviving drawings and paintings. Examination of these two Venetian commissions, however, reveals Vasari's formation of a repertoire of personifications and a new artistic formula, or quadro riportato, for decorative cycles. 2 Vasari's adroit inventiveness in the creation of a new type of decorative design and his resourceful imagination in the embellishment of emblematic imagery contribute to the artistic richness of sixteenth-century art. A temporary decoration, the Venetian stage designs or apparato were demolished after the carnival in 1542. Vasari explains how he attempted to

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