The Annotations of El Greco in Vasari's Vite

Research Project

Project/Area Number	15K02144
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Fine art history
Research Institution	Tohoku Gakuin University
Principal Investigator	Matsui ( Mori ) Michiko 東北学院大学, 教養学部, 教授 (40142898)
Project Period (FY)	2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000) Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywords	エル・グレコ / ヴァザーリ / 『列伝』評釈 / 古代美術 / ビザンティン美術 / パルミジャニーノ / 第３様式 / アンチ・ヴァザリアン
Outline of Final Research Achievements	It seems very notable that some El Greco’s underlines on Vite suggest that he was aware well of some key points of Vasar's art historical conceptions and his art ideology: 1) In the Preface of the Third Part of Vite, he paid attention to Vasari's descriptions concerning discoveries of the famous ancient sculptures, and they contributed to the change of the style from the second stage of Renaissance to the third one. 2) El Greco noted the passages about the untrue episode made by Vasari on the Greek masters working in the Gondi Chapel and Cimabue's early style in the life of Cimabue. His annotations tells us he doubted that Vasari was not able to recognize the true Byzantine style. Moreover some annotations on Parmigianino tell us that El Greco greatly admired the slender and elegant human bodies in the drawings by him, but the principles of his mature painting style were never acceptable to him.