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Catalogue >Fine Art >  General >  Reading Vasari Reading Vasari Edited by Anne B. Barriault, Andrew Ladis, Norman E. Land and Jeryldene M. Wood The book explores the rich literary character and rhetorical strategies of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, which tells the story of Italian art as it unfolded from its beginnings in the Trecento to its pinnacle in Michelangelo and the art of the Academy in the mid-sixteenth century. Published in conjunction with the Georgia Museum of Art, Athens. William U. Eiland, Director. 320 pages / 253 x 184 mm / 60 mono illustrations / hardback ISBN 0 85667 582 2 | Retail price £50.00  [View low resolution sample pages in PDF format ] Online price: £35.00 / €52.50 The contributors of Reading Vasari propose ways to read Vasari's text in the light of recent disputes over what is fact, fiction, or biography, and who may have read Vasari's editions when they were first published. The essays isolate and analyse select threads from Vasari's luxurious textual tapestry: these range from architecture, cosmology and philosophy to biography, comedy, elegy and travelogue. In doing so, the authors have built upon ideas proposed in recent studies of the Lives, including important works by Paul Barolsky and Patricia Rubin, and they offer fresh points of view that stem from their varied methodologies. The contributors' diverse responses in Reading Vasari underscore the vast dimensions of Vasari's Lives and the promise that every generation of scholars has much to learn from this sixteenth-century master of the arts. Anne B. Barriault is an art historian, writer and editor for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation, Richmond. Andrew Ladis is Franklin Professor of Art at the University of Georgia, Athens. Norman E. Land is Professor of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art History at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Jeryldene M. Wood is Associate Professor of Art History in Italian Renaissance Art, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.