Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects

The first great history of Renaissance art, from Cimabue and Giotto to Botticelli and Donatello

Giorgio Vasari, Gaston C. du de Vere, Gaston C. du de Vere, Gaston du C. de Vere

• Publisher: Studium Publishing
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN:
  9788027246618
• Topic: Kunst
• Subtopic: Kunstgeschichte der Renaissance

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 …

Table of contents

• Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
• Table of Contents
• Translator’s Preface to this Edition
• To the Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Signor Cosimo De’ Medici, Duke of Florence
• To the Most Illustrious and Most Excellent Signor Cosimo De’ Medici, Duke of Florence and Siena
• Pius Papa Quintus (Pope Pius V)
• Preface to the Whole Work
• Preface to the Lives
• Concerning 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
• The 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
• The Third 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
• The Author to the Craftsmen of Design