The first volume of Giorgio Vasari's Lives, a foundational history of Italian art. It offers biographies of early masters from Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi, blending facts, anecdotes and Vasari's critical judgments. It is worth hearing as an introduction to the artists who prepared the Renaissance.
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Opening of the book
LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT PAINTERS SCULPTORS & ARCHITECTS 1912 BY GIORGIO VASARI: NEWLY TRANSLATED BY GASTON Du C. DE VERE. WITH FIVE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS: IN TEN VOLUMES LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO. LD. & THE MEDICI SOCIETY, LD. 1912-14 CONTENTS OF VOLUME I PAGE TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE TO THIS EDITION xi DEDICATIONS TO COSIMO DE' MEDICI EDITION OF 1550 xiii EDITION OF 1568 xvii IMPRIMATUR OF POPE PIUS V xxi THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE WHOLE WORK xxiii THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE LIVES xxxvii
GIOVANNI CIMABUE 1 ARNOLFO DI LAPO 11 NICCOLA AND GIOVANNI OF PISA [NICCOLA PISANO: GIOVANNI PISANO] 27 ANDREA TAFI 45 GADDO GADDI 53 MARGARITONE 61 GIOTTO 69 AGOSTINO AND AGNOLO OF SIENA 95 STEFANO AND UGOLINO SANESE [UGOLINO DA SIENA] 107 PIETRO LAURATI [PIETRO LORENZETTI] 115 ANDREA PISANO 121 BUONAMICO BUFFALMACCO 133 AMBROGIO LORENZETTI 153 PIETRO CAVALLINI 159 SIMONE SANESE [SIMONE MEMMI OR MARTINI] 165 TADDEO GADDI 175 ANDREA DI CIONE ORCAGNA 187 TOMMASO, CALLED GIOTTINO 201 GIOVANNI DAL PONTE 209 AGNOLO GADDI 215 INDEX OF NAMES 225 ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME I PLATES IN COLOUR Cimabue Madonna and Child Florence: Accademia, 102 10 Giotto Madonna and Child Florence: Accademia, 103 82
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