Brief History of Artist God to Picasso

Informationen zum Autor Paul Barolsky is Commonwealth Professor of the History of Art at the University of Virginia. He is the author of numerous books, including the Penn State Press titles The Faun in the Garden: Michelangelo and the Poetic Origins of Italian Renaissance Art (1994), Giotto's Father and the Family of Vasari’s "Lives" (1992), and Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari (1991). Zusammenfassung Explores art history and imaginative literature to show how fiction and history inform each other. Traces the modern idea of the artist to the epic tradition from Homer and Ovid to Dante! leading to Michelangelo. Examines how Vasari shaped Balzac's idea of the artist! and Balzac influenced Picasso's.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Barolsky, Barolsky Paul
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2012
• EAN: 9780271036762
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03676-2
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, ART / History / General, HISTORY / World, ART / Criticism & Theory, History of art / art & design styles, General & world history