Vasari’s progressive (but non-historicist) Renaissance
This article examines the meanings of progress and the improvement of the arts in the writings of Giorgio Vasari, arguing that his vision of progress must be understood in a strictly non-historicist way. Using insights of Maurice Mandelbaum and Jörn Rüsen, the characteristics of the (pre-historicist...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online Access: | http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/verstegen.pdf |