Author
Giorgio Vasari is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, published essays, and reading notebooks (1844–1847). 2 distinct works are named, most often in New-York Daily Tribune, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Giorgio Vasari’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“had read everything that related to Condivi, Vasari, Benvenuto Cellini”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · before 1839
Same dated (before 1839) explicit reading claim naming Vasari.
“Vasari has said of Raphael's / Virgins "Mostro tutto quello / che di bellezza si puo fare, / nell'aria di una vergine, / dove sia accompagnata negli / occhi modestia, nella fronte / onore, nel naso grazia e / nella bocca virtù [...] whose / aimability, says Vasari, / was such that "non / seulement les hommes, / mais les animaux / euxmemes s'affectionnoient. [...] Vasari mentions writings now lost of / [M's] on his art from which / he had derived great assistance.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“the two boys were as content in their relation as Michael Angelo with his Urbino.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p255
Inferred Fuller alludes to Michelangelo's bond with his servant Francesco Amadori (Urbino), who served him for over 25 years.
“We are reminded on this occasion of the funeral solemnities described by that worthy biographer of genius, VASARI, when all the artists had adorned”
Fuller, Margaret. "The Beethoven Monument." New-York Daily Tribune, 3 September 1845. · 3 September 1845
“The records before us of the great composers are by the patient and reverent Germans, the sensible, never to be duped Englishman, or the sprightly Frenchman; but a Vasari was needed also to cast a broader sunlight on the scene.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p225
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p225; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
“Andrea del Sarto, in particular, one sees only there, and he is worth much.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Inferred Hudspeth identified Fuller's familiarity with Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, citing the life of Andrea del Sarto and the characterization of his wife Lucrezia del Fede. Fuller's description of del Fede as having a "bad" character with a "wild nature" and "what is called deviltry" closely mirrors Vasari's account of her as a manipulative, grasping woman who alienated del Sarto's friends.
Hudspeth identified Fuller's familiarity with Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, citing the life of Andrea del Sarto and the characterization of his wife Lucrezia del Fede.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Vasari has said of Raphael's / Virgins "Mostro tutto quello / che di bellezza si puo fare, / nell'aria di una vergine, / dove sia accompagnata negli / occhi modestia, nella fronte / onore, nel naso grazia e / nella bocca virtù [...] whose / aimability, says Vasari, / was such that "non / seulement les hommes, / mais les animaux / euxmemes s'affectionnoient.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Artists." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (94); Box 6.
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“She read Condivi, Vasari, Benvenuto Cellini, Duppa, Fuseli, and Von Waagen — great and small.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
This archive entry identifies Margaret Fuller's engagement with Giorgio Vasari's Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori.