Background
Barolsky, Paul was born on July 13, 1941 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of Benjamin and Eva (Keizer) Barolsky.
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Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari by Paul Barolsky (2004-10-07)
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Infinite Jest: Wit and Humor in Italian Renaissance Art by Paul Barolsky (1978-09-03)
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Infinite Jest: Wit and Humor in Italian Renaissance Art
(Infinite Jest: Wit And Humor In Italian Renaissance Art b...)
Infinite Jest: Wit And Humor In Italian Renaissance Art by Paul Barolsky. London: University Of Missouri Press, 1978. Early Edition. 224 pages. Oversize . Hardcover w/Jacket. B&W illustrations throughout. Light wear to binding, covers, pages
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Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari
( Art history as we know it would not exist without Vasar...)
Art history as we know it would not exist without Vasari, and Barolsky shows us that something of the same claim should be made for literary history. He demonstrates the ways in which a literary approach to Vasari's book deepens our understanding of its historical, art-historical, and imaginative character. Why Mona Lisa Smiles discusses Vasari's shrewd, witty, intimate awareness of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio and relates the Lives to the works of Castiglione, Aretino, Cellini, and Rabelais. Barolsky reveals the unexpected fantasy of Vasari, who imagined and then invented artists and works of art, totally fabricating the lives of artists about whom he knew little or nothing. Barolsky traces the myth of Pygmalion through the Lives, demonstrating that Vasari was himself a Pygmalion in words and showing how he wittily played on the names of artists, revealing these poetical fantasies as part of the very iconography of Renaissance art. By approaching the Lives as a combination of genres—biography, history, novella, autobiography, novel, and literary banquet—Barolsky connects Vasari's highly fictionalized history to the modern historical novel. The fictional character of Vasari's book should not be ignored or dismissed by art historians, Barolsky insists, since it is itself a historical document—the record of how a painter and writer of extraordinary sensibility beheld works of art at a particular moment in history. Barolsky's unique approach to the Lives makes this study a valuable contribution to the history of the reception of art.
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Paul Barolsky
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, Middlebury (Vermont) College, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1969.
Career
Commonwealth professor art history, McIntire Department Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, since 1969.
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Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari
( Art history as we know it would not exist without Vasar...)
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Infinite Jest: Wit and Humor in Italian Renaissance Art
(Infinite Jest: Wit And Humor In Italian Renaissance Art b...)
- Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari by Paul Barolsky (2004-10-07)
- Infinite Jest: Wit and Humor in Italian Renaissance Art by Paul Barolsky (1978-09-03)
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Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari
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Married Ruth H. Lassow, August 12, 1966. Children: Deborah Eve, Daniel G.
