Philip Jacks, ed.
Vasari’s Florence: Artists and Literati at the Medicean Court
New York:
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
320 pp.; 12 color ills.; 109 b/w ills.
Cloth
$70.00
(0521580889)
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This collection consists of fourteen papers presented at an international conference held in conjunction with an exhibit of drawings by Vasari and related artists at the Yale University Art Gallery in 1994. A companion catalogue by Maia Gahtan and Philip Jacks, bearing the same title as this volume (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994) describes the role of disegno in Vasari’s artistic production. Conference acts (often generated by exhibitions) have become a convenient way of...