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'.
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 5 Jun 1843 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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 |
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 |
Record ID: | 17182 | |
Source - | ||
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 |
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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