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"Giorgio Vasari & Court Culture in Late Renaissance Italy" opens at the Spencer Museum of Art |
| September 16th, 2012 01:35:14 am |
LAWRENCE, KS.- Giorgio Vasari’s Christ Carrying the Cross (circa 1555–64) measures a mere twenty-three by seventeen inches, but the painting’s historical and artistic importance far exceeds its modest dimensions. It is the larger story behind the painting that inspired the Spencer Museum of Art’s new exhibition, Giorgio Vasari & Court Culture in Late Renaissance Italy, opening September 15 and remaining on view through December 9. Often billed as the first art historian, Giorgio Vasari (1511–74) is best known as the author of the Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, a compilation of artists’ biographies that was among the first of its kind. Vasari was also a successful painter and architect, but his career as a painter in particular has been eclipsed by his literary reputation, according to Associate Professor of Art History Sally J. Cornelison. Dr. Cornelison con |
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