FIGURE 2.10 “Brazilian Village.” Woodcut

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TitleBrazilian Village

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1551

Object typePrint

MaterialsWoodcut

DimensionsUnknown

LocationHoughton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Accession numberTyp 515.51.272

SubjectsFire in artNature in artIndigenous peoples in art

StatusFrom "Cest la deduction du sumptueux ordre, plaisantz spectacles et magnifiques theatres dresses, et exhibes par les citoiens de Rouen … a la sacree maiesté du treschristian roy de France, Henry Seco[n]d … et à tresillustre dame, ma dame Katharine de Medicis," 1551

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2. Contamination, Stasis, and Purging

David Young Kim

The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance: Geography, Mobility, and Style

If Vasari’s legacy is his fashioning of a history for the visual arts, then it seems reasonable to begin an analysis of artistic mobility where that history begins, namely the Proemio delle Vite. This is not to say that the preceding sections—the dedication to Duke Cosimo I, the initial Proemio, and the technical treatise—do not raise the issue of mobility. Nevertheless, it is in the Proemio delle Vite, henceforth referred to as the preface, where the reader first encounters sustained attention …

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David Young Kim

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.39-53

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00160.005

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14351&redirecttoanchor=11734

Chapter subject tags:Vasari, Giorgio, 1562-1625Itinerant artistsPictorial maps, RenaissanceRhetoric, RenaissanceArt, Byzantine

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