Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects

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Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects

The first great history of Renaissance art, from Cimabue and Giotto to Botticelli and DonatelloBy Giorgio Vasari

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The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", "some of the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art" and "the first important book on art history". The title is often abridged to just the Vite or the Lives. Contents: Cimabue Arnolfo di Lapo Nicola Pisano Giovanni Pisano Andrea Tafi Gaddo Gaddi Margaritone Giotto Agostino and Agnolo Stefano and Ugolino Pietro Lorenzetti Andrea Pisano Buonamico Buffalmacco Ambrogio Lorenzetti Pietro Cavallini Simone Martini Taddeo Gaddi Andrea Orcagna Tommaso Fiorentino Giovanni da Ponte Agnolo Gaddi Berna Sanese Duccio Antonio Viniziano Jacopo di Casentino Spinello Aretino Gherardo Starnina Lippo Lorenzo Monaco Taddeo Bartoli Lorenzo di Bicci Jacopo della Quercia Niccolo Aretino Dello Nanni di Banco Luca della Robbia Paolo Uccello Lorenzo Ghiberti Masolino da Panicale Parri Spinelli Masaccio Filippo Brunelleschi Donatello Michelozzo Michelozzi Antonio Filarete Giuliano da Maiano Piero della Francesca Fra Angelico Leon Battista Alberti Lazaro Vasari Antonello da Messina Alesso Baldovinetti Vellano da Padova Fra Filippo Lippi Gentile da Fabriano Vittore Pisanello Pesello and Francesco Pesellino Benozzo Gozzoli Francesco di Giorgio Galasso Ferrarese Desiderio da Settignano Mino da Fiesole Lorenzo Costa Ercole Ferrarese Cosimo Rosselli Il Cecca Sandro Botticelli Benedetto da Maiano Andrea Mantegna Filippino Lippi Giorgio Vasari …

Memory Royalty & Courts Political Intrigue Grief Exploration Redemption

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GenreBiography and Memoir, Other

Length95 hrs 10 mins

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FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateSep 4, 2018

LanguageEnglish

1Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects

26Tommaso, Called Giottino

2Translator’s Preface to this Edition

27Giovanni Dal Ponte

3To the Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Signor Cosimo De’ Medici, Duke of Florence

28Agnolo Gaddi

4To the Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Signor Cosimo De’ Medici, Duke of Florence and Siena

29Berna

5Pius Papa Quintus (Pope Pius V)

30Duccio

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6Preface to the Whole Work

31Antonio Viniziano

7Preface to the Lives

32Jacopo Di Casentino

8Concerning the Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, who have Lived from Cimabue to the Present Day. Written by Messer Giorgio Vasari, Painter of Arezzo

33Spinello Aretino

9Giovanni Cimabue

34Gherardo Starnina

10Arnolfo Di Lapo

35Lippo

11Niccola and Giovanni of Pisa

36Don Lorenzo Monaco

12Andrea Tafi

37Taddeo Bartoli

13Gaddo Gaddi

38Lorenzo Di Bicci

14Margaritone

39The Second Part of the Lives of the Sculptors, Painters, and Architects, Who have Lived From Cimabue to Our Own Day. Written by Messer Giorgio Vasari, Painter and Architect of Arezzo

15Giotto

40Preface to the Second Part

16Agostino and Agnolo of Siena

41Jacopo Della Quercia

17Stefano and Ugolino Sanese

42Niccolò Aretino

18Pietro Laurati

43Dello

19Andrea Pisano

44Nanni d’Antonio Di Banco

20Buonamico Buffalmacco

45Luca Della Robbia