The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance: Geography, Mobility, and Style (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300198676)

This important and innovative book examines artists' mobility as a critical aspect of Italian Renaissance art. It is well known that many eminent artists such as Cimabue, Giotto, Donatello, Lotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian traveled. This book is the first to consider the sixteenth-century literary descriptions of their journeys in relation to the larger Renaissance discourse concerning mobility, geography, the act of creation, and selfhood.

David Young Kim carefully explores relevant themes in Giorgio Vasari's monumental Lives of the Artists, in particular how style was understood to register an artist's encounter with place. Through new readings of critical ideas, long-standing regional prejudices, and entire biographies, The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance provides a groundbreaking case for the significance of mobility in the interpretation of art and the wider discipline of art history.

Author: David Young Kim
ISBN-10: 0300198671
ISBN-13: 9780300198676
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/23/2014
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.37lbs
Size: 11.42h x 8.71w x 1.02d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2015 pg. 1644