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Giorgio Vasari and Mannerist Architecture: A Marriage of Beauty and Function in Urban Spaces
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Liana De Girolami Cheney
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2016.10.007
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SIELAE, Universidad de Coruña, Coruña, Spain
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The first part of this essay deals with Giorgio Vasari’s conception of architecture in sixteenth-century Italy, and the second part examines Vasari’s practical application of one of his constructions, the loggia (open gallery or arcade) or corridoio (corridor). The essay also discusses the merits of Vasari’s open gallery (loggia) as a vernacular architectural construct with egalitarian functions and Vasari’s principles of architecture (design, rule, order, and proportion) and beauty (delight and necessity) for the formulation of the theory of art in Mannerism, a sixteenth-century style of art.
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mannerism, fine arts, loggia (open gallery), architectural principles, theory of art, design, beauty, necessity and functionality
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Barocchi, P. (1960). Trattati d’arte del Cinquecento (Treatises of art in the sixteenth century). Bari: G. Latera.
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Carocci, G. (1884). Il Mercato Vecchio di Firenze: Ricordi e curiostià di storia e d’arte (Old market of Florence: Artistic and historical recollections and curiosities). Florence: Pia Casa di Patronato.
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Cast, D. (2009). The delight of art: Giorgio Vasari and the traditions of humanist discourse. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
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Cheney, L. D. (2011c). Giorgio Vasari: Artistic and emblematic manifestations. Washington, DC: New Academia.
Cheney, L. D. (2012). Giorgio Vasari: The prefaces: Art and theory. London: Peter Lang Publishers.
Conforti, C. (1993/2010). Giorgio Vasari Architetto (Giorgio Vasari Architect). Milan: Electa.
Conforti, C., & Francesca de Luca, F. (2011/2012). Vasari, gli Uffizi e il Duca (Vasari, the Uffizi and the duke). Florence: Giunti.
Corso, A., Mugellesi, R., & Rosa, G. (Eds. & Trans.). (1988). Gaio Plinio Secondo, Storia Naturale (Natural history) (5 Vols.). Turin: Enaudi.
de Fusco, R. (1981). L’architettetura del cinquecento (Cinquecento architecture). Turin: UTET.
del Vita, A. (1920). Castiglionfiorentino nella storia e nell’arte (Castiglionfiorentino in art and in history). Rome/Milan: Alfieri and Lacroix.
Fasola, G. (1952). “Manierismo e Architettura” (“Mannerism and architecture”). In Atti del Convegno internazionale per il IV centenario della prima edizione delle Vitedel Vasari Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, 175-180.
Gearhart, H. G. (2010). Theophilus on diverse arts (PhD dissertation, University of Michigan).
Grafton, A. (2000). Leon Battista Alberti: Master builder of the Italian Renaissance. New York: Hill and Wang.
Gregory, S. (2012). Vasari and the Renaissance print. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
Hagstrum, J. H. (1958). The sister arts: The tradition of literary pictorialism and English poetry from Dreyden to Gray. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
Hart, V., & Hicks, P. (Eds.). (1966). “Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture Volume One: Books I-V”. In Tutte L’Opere D’Architettura et Prospetiva. New Haven & London: Yale University Press.
King James Bible (KJV). (2006). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press as Cambridge Bibles in Baker Publishing Group.
Kotani, N. (2011). Villa Giulia: The Caprice of Pope Julius III. Journal of Osaka University of the Arts, 1-14.
Lotz, W. (1977). 16th Century Italian squares. In Studies in Italian Renaissance architecture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lotz, W. (1995). Architecture in Italy: 1500-1600. (rev. by D. Howard). New Haven: Yale University Press.
Maclehose, L. S., & Brown, B. (Eds. & Trans.). (1960). Vasari on technique. New York: Dover Publications.
Mandelbaum, A. (1995). (Eds. & Trans.). Dante, Divine Comedy, Il Paradiso. New York: Knopf Doubleday.
McHam, S. B. (2013). Pliny and the artistic culture of the Italian Renaissance: The legacy of the “natural history”. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Mitrovic, B. (1999). Canon of the five orders of architecture. New York: Acanthus Press.
Morgan, M. J. (Ed. & Trans.). (1960). Vitruvius: The ten books on architecture. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
Panichi, R. (1991). La Tecnica dell’arte negli scritti di Giorgio Vasari (Techniques of art in the writings of Giorgio Vasari). Florence: Alinea.
Payne, A. A. (1999). The architectural treatise in the Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pevsner, N. (1946). Architecture of mannerism. Baltimore: Penguin.
Piotrowski, A. (20111). Architecture of thought. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Rowland, I., & Thomas Noble Howe, T. N. (Eds.). (1999). Vitruvius. Ten books on architecture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rykwert, J., Tavernor, R., & Leach, N. (1988). (Eds. & Trans.). Alberti, Leon Battista. De re aedificatoria (On architecture). On the art of building in ten books. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Satkowski, L. (1993). Giorgio Vasari: Architect and courtier. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Saunders, P. F. (2016). Pliny the elder and the emergence of Renaissance architecture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Spencer, J. R. (Ed., Trans., & intro.). (1965). Filarete’s treatise on architecture (2 Vols.). New Haven and London, Yale University Press.
Temple, N. (2011). Renovatio Urbis: Architecture, urbanism and ceremony in Rome of Julius II. New York: Routledge.
Tuttle, R. J. (1997). Vignola e Villa Giulia. Casabella, 646, 101-178.
Varchi, B. (1560). Due Lezzioni di Benedetto Varchi: l’una d’amore, &l’altra della gelosia Con alcune utili & dilettevoli quistioni, da lui nuove aggiunte (Two lessons of Benedetto Varchi: One on love and the other on jealousy. With some of his added helpful and delightful questions). Lyon: Gugliaume Roville.
Vasari, G. (1550). Le vite de’ piú eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori Italiani da Cimabue insino a’ tempi nostri. Descritti in lingua Toscana, da Giorgio Vasari, Pittore Aretino. Con sua utile e necessaria introduzione a le arti loro (The Italian lives of the most excellent architects, painters, and sculptors from Cimabue until our present time. Described in the Tuscan language by Giorgio Vasari, Aretine painter. With his useful and necessary introduction on their arts). Firenze: Lorenzo Torrentino.
Vasari, G. (1568). Le vite de’ più eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori (The lives of the most excellent architects, painters and sculptors) (9 Vols.). Milanesi, G. (1906/1973). (Ed.). Florence: G. S. Sansoni.
Viviani-Fiorini, D. (1937). “Le Logge della Piazza del Comune di Castiglionfiorentino” (“The Logge of Piazza del Comune of Castiongfiorentino”). Atti e memorie della Accademia Petrarca di lettere, arti e science, XXII-XXV, 123-126.
Wilkins, D. G. (September 1983). Donatello’s lost Dovizia for the Mercato Vecchio: Wealth and charity as Florentine civic virtues. The Art Bulletin, 65 (3), 401-423.