Presents an inventory on three volumes of the archives of Renaissance painter Giorgio Vasari at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Highlights of the archives; Document on the work of Vasari on the decoration of the cupola of Florence Cathedral in Italy; Insights on account books in the archives.
ART history, GLOBALIZATION, ARCHIVES, CROSS-cultural studies, INTERREGIONALISM
Abstract
A conversation took place in 2021 between two art historians whose research focuses on different regions of the premodern world and who have recently collaborated on a project dealing with early histories of globalism. The discussion considers the potential archival value of "flotsam"—that is, extant artifacts and images lacking extensive textual metadata—for (re)constructing transcultural and transregional histories of circulation and reception. It addresses divergences in the nature of the available archival materials and the ethical and methodological challenges this poses. The discussants consider the need to move beyond earlier, largely celebratory narratives of the global to engage the ways in which transregional and transcultural networks intersected with more rooted or regional traditions of art making and material culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Focuses on the significance of twenty-four records of payments to painter Gerard David which were discovered in the archives of the hospital Onze-Lieve-Vrouw ter Potterie at Bruges, Belgium. Information on the documentary investigation of David initiated by James Weale; Knowledge of David's studio and its practices; Dispute between David and his Lombard journeyman, Ambrosius Benson.