Seminar 04
From Guilds to Academies: The Changing Status of the Artist
Seminar questions
- To what extent does Burckhardt鈥檚 Renaissance individual correspond to Vasari biographies of artists?
- How much the way in which artists were perceived changed in European societies during the early modern period?
- Were academies fundamental in raising the status of artists?
- How far was the sixteenth-century artist free from guild restrictions?
Suggested reading
Ackerman, James S., 鈥極n the Origins of Art History and Criticism鈥�, in Idem, Origin, Imitations, Conventions, Cambridge (Mass.)-London 2002, ch. 1 [xeroxes]
Ames-Lewis, Francis, The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist, New Haven-London 2000 [N 6370.A6]
Barker, Emma - Webb, Nick - Wood, Kim (eds.), The Changing Status of the Artist, New Haven-London 1999 [N 6915.C4]
Clifton, James, 鈥榁asari on Competition鈥�, Sixteenth Century Journal, 27 (1996), pp 23-41 [Jstor]
Goldstein, Carl, Teaching Art: Academies and Schools from Vasari to Albers, Cambridge 1996, chs. 1-2 [N 85.G6]
Hughes, Anthony, Michelangelo, London 1997 [NB 623.M4]
Jack, Mary Ann, 鈥楾he Accademia del Disegno in Late Renaissance Florence鈥�, Sixteenth Century Journal, 7 (1976), pp. 3-20 [Jstor]
Kempers, Bram, Painting, Power and Patronage. The Rise of the Professional Artist in Renaissance Italy, London 1994 [ND 615.K3]
Kris, Ernst – Kurz, Otto, Legend, Myth and Magic in the Image of the Artist: A Historical Experiment, New Haven-London 1979 [N71.K7]
Perry, G. – Cunningham, C. (eds), Academies, Museums and Canons of Art, New Haven-London 1999 [N 7480.A2]
Pevsner, Nicolaus, Academies of Art, Past and Present, New York 1973, chs. 2-3 [N 325.P3]
Rogers, Mary, 鈥楾he Artist as Beauty鈥�, in Concepts of Beauty in Renaissance Art, ed. F. Ames-Lewis and M. Rogers, Aldershot 1998, pp. 93-106 [N 6915.C6]
Rubin, Patricia Lee, Giorgio Vasari: Art and History, New Haven-London 1995 [N 6922.V2]
Shiner, Larry, The Invention of Art. A Cultural History, Chicago-London 2001, Introduction and chs. 1-4 [N 66.S4]
Warnke, Martin, The Court Artist: On the Ancestry of the Modern Artist, Cambridge 1993 [N 8350.W2]
Wittkower, Rudolph, 鈥業ndividualism in Art and Artists: A Renaissance Problem鈥�, Journal of the History of Ideas, 22 (1961), pp. 291-302 [Jstor]
Wittkower, Rudolph - Wittkower, D., Born Under Saturn. The Character and Conduct of Artists, London 1963 [N 71.W4]
Woods-Marsden, Joanna, Renaissance Self-Portraiture: The Visual Construction of Identity and the Social Status of the Artist, New Haven-London 1998 [N 7618.W6]
The Autobiography of a Craftsman: Benvenuto Celllini
Barker, Emma - Webb, Nick - Wood, Kim (eds.), The Changing Status of the Artist, New Haven-London 1999, ch. 3 [N 6915.C4]
Cellini, Benvenuto, Autobiography, London 1999
Chong, A. - Pegazzano, D. - Zikos, D. (eds.), Raphael, Cellini and a Renaissance Banker. The Patronage of Bindo Altoviti, Milan 2004 [N 5273.2.A5]
Gallucci, Margaret A. – Rossi, Paolo L. (eds), Benvenuto Cellini: Sculptor, Goldsmith, Writer, Cambridge 2004
Gardner, Victoria C., 鈥楬omines non nascuntur, sed figuntur: Benvenuto Cellini鈥檚 Vita and Self-Presentation of the Renaissance Artist鈥�, Sixteenth Century Journal, 28 (1997), pp. 447-465 [Jstor]
Gardner Coates, Victoria C., 鈥樷�漇culpsit Cellinium Neptunam鈥�: The Biography of the Neptune Fountain in Cellini鈥檚 Vita鈥�, Renaissance Studies, 19 (2005), pp. 604-618 [Arts Periodicals]
Pope-Hennesy, John W., Cellini, London 1985 [NB 623.C3]
Rossi, Paolo L., 鈥楽prezzatura, Patronage, and Fate: Benvenuto Cellini and the World of Words鈥�, in P. Jacks, Vasari鈥檚 Florence: Artists and Literati at the Medicean Court, Cambridge 1998, pp. 55-69 [N 6922.V2]