LOLCINQUECENTO

[petronia]

I was trying to explain to someone why Vasari was inherently funny and I came up with the idea of equating the cities of Renaissance Italy with fandoms and artists with ficcers and, um, yeah. The impression I got was that Florentines are still kind of bitter about this. ...I'll just be over here.

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[nem0.livejournal.com]

...I just shot Bacardi Silver out my nose reading that. BECAUSE IT IS SO TRUE.

[methexis.livejournal.com]

AHEOoAEHoAOEhOAEHoAOEhOAHeoHAE.

Utterly. F*cking. Brillant.

Much obliged,
J.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

astrael_nyx on my flist also provides: loltheorists. *g*

[methexis.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is awesome. Love the Plato one!

Best,
J.

[z107m.livejournal.com]

lol! so wrong, yet so true!
I've always thought Vasari (at least the parts he writes himself) liked to cast himself as a mary sue, in the shadow of those glorious masters, humbly writing the greatest history of the arts since Pliny. :b

P.S. If you haven't read it yet, you'll get a laugh out of Cellini's autobiography. If you ever thought those Ren. folk were aliens from another planet, there's nothing quite like necromancy and naked boys on a full moon at the Coliseum.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I found Vasari's grave in S.M. della Croce - stumbled over it actually, since it's just a smallish rectangular marker set flat in the ground. Compared with Michelangelo's monument nearby which was, well, the full Vasari treatment. As with all things Vasari in Firenze, it was somewhat pathos-inducing yet hilarious.

Okay, I'll read it. XD I should read Vasari properly from end to end too, I didn't know it was out in Penguin Classic.

[z107m.livejournal.com]

dude, don't torture yourself. just hit the introductions to each of the three books and jump to the artists that might interest you, like the eccentric ones or ones that had cool paintings that you liked. otherwise, the rhetoric gets to be a drag. (Current theory is that "Vasari" is actually a corporate endeavor. Hence, references to himself in both first and third person. :b But I forget if the Penguin version leaves any of that in.)