These questions concern reading assignments in your course reader: Michael Baxandall�s �Conditions of Trade,� from Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy and the selection from Giorgio Vasari�s Lives of the Artists.
Please respond to these questions in the form of a well-organized essay of 3 to 4 double-spaced pages in 12-point times font. Please check your work for spelling and grammar. Please cite speci?c examples and passages from the writings of Baxandall and Vasari.
Assignment: In Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy, Michael Baxandall describes the status of artists and the works they produced in the early Renaissance. The period, however, between roughly 1400 and 1550 saw a rapid and substantial change in the way society viewed art and those who made their living as artists. Drawing on your reading of Baxandall, brie?y summarize the conditions under which art was made at the
beginning of the ?fteenth century.
Writing around 1550, Vasari, a practicing artist presents the reader with a very different view of the status and activities of the artist than that presented by Baxandall. Making explicit reference to the passages you read by these writers describe these changes. What factors account for this historical shift? How did Vasari�s dual role as artist and biographer in?uence the account he provides of these changes?
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