Paul Barolsky
Paul Barolsky (born July 13, 1941 ) is an American art historian.
Barolsky received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1969 (his dissertation resulted in his catalog raisonné by Daniele da Volterra ) and then taught at the University of Virginia , where he was Commonwealth Professor of Art History.
He deals with the art of the Renaissance and has published, among others, on Michelangelo and in several works with Giorgio Vasari . According to Barolsky, Vasari's biographies are in part fairly free literary inventions. He also treats Vasari as a source of social history, such as the role of the family.
He was a Guggenheim Fellow and visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute and the American Academy in Rome.
Fonts
- Infinite Jest: wit and humor in Italian Renaissance art, University of Missouri Press 1978
- Daniele da Volterra: a catalog raisonné, New York, Garland 1979
- Walter Pater ’s Renaissance, Pennsylvania State University Press 1987 (received the Phi Beta Prize)
- Michelangelo's nose. A myth and its maker, Pennsylvania State University 1990
- Why Mona Lisa smiles and other tales by Vasari, Pennsylvania State University Press 1991.
- German translation: Why is Mona Lisa smiling. Vasaris inventions, Wagenbach 1995.
- Giotto's father and the family of Vasari's Lives, Pennsylvania State University 1992
- German translation: Giotto's father. Vasari's family stories, Wagenbach 1996
- The Faun in the Garden. Michelangelo and the Poetic Origins of Italian Renaissance Art, Pennsylvania State University Press 1994
- Michelangelo and the finger of God, University of Georgia 2003
- A brief history of the artist from God to Picasso, Pennsylvania State University Press 2010
Web links
- Homepage at the University of Virginia
- Literature by and about Paul Barolsky in the WorldCat bibliographic database
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| SURNAME | Barolsky, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American art historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1941 |