Vasari on Theatre. (Reviews).

Renaissance Quarterly | June 22, 2002| | Copyright

Thomas A. Pallen. Vasari on Theatre

Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. 159 Pp. $39.95. ISBN: 0-8093-2161-0.

In his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Giorgio Vasari describes a number of pageants and theatrical performances worked on by artists whose biographies appear in his work. To make Vasari's references to theatrical practices available in English, Thomas A. Pallen has extracted and newly translated pertinent excerpts from the Lives. In addition to the translations, the book provides ...

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