The discovery of annotations to a copy of Vasari'sVite(1550) in the Beinecke Library at Yale University gives us a rare insight into how the book and contemporary art literature were read and how the information they provided circulated in the Veneto. This article traces the origin of the annotations to the circle of artists and amateurs around the painter Domenico Campagnola in Padua. In polemical reaction to the Florentinism of theVite,the annotations repeat the major anti-Vasarian arguments elaborated by art writers, but also offer new information about Veneto art. There is also a biographical note on Titian, which precedes the publication of the artist's biography in the second edition of theVite(1568).
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of state funerals dedicated to individuals of exceptional importance (popes, kings, emperors, cardinals, and even artists) in the early modern period. So far scholars interested in the subject have had to rely on primary sources (paintings, engravings, contemporary booklets illustrating specific funerals);
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