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Record 17182

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 6 June 1843: 'I read Vasari, all day -- yesterday[.] Why are Vasari's Lives so popular [--] why have they gone through so many Editions? -- because what is anecdotical & human is not sacrificed for the sake of the abstract & professional [...] The fact the Michael Angelo was liable to head aches -- is a Comfort! and when I read he had the cramp! -- my dear, I rise an inch taller as I walk'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 5 Jun 1843
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Benjamin Robert Haydon
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1786
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Artist
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: unknown
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Giorgio Vasari
Title: Delle vite de piu eccelenti pittori, scultori, ed archittetori
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Biography, Arts / architecture
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 17182  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson
  Title: The Brownings' Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Winfield
  Date of Publication: 1989
  Vol: 7
  Page: 170
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1989), 7, p. 170, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17182, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Not clear whether text read in original, or in translated extracts; source eds note that no complete English translation of text published until 1850 (see p.171 n.1).

 

 

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