Vasari
themes checklist.
Use this guide as you skim each of Vasari’s Lives. Fill in a checklist for each life as you read it
and note patterns in
the Lives as you read more and more
of them. Turn in copies of your
completed charts when you hand in your Vasari paper.
- Artist
to whom apprenticed
- When/how/does
he surpass his master?
- Does
he impress important people?
- Who
are major patrons or commissions?
- Discussion
of works we study?
- Any interesting
or unusual anecdotes?
- Words/phrases
used to praise, e.g. light, progress, invention, almost alive
- Comments
on other words/phrases/images Vasari uses
- Does
Vasari sum up his subject’s life? How?