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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title: Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Author: Giorgio Vasari Translator: Gaston du C. De Vere Release date: May 5, 2008 [eBook #25326] Most recently updated: January 3, 2021 Language: English Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25326 Credits: Produced by Mark C. Orton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT PAINTERS SCULPTORS AND ARCHITECTS, VOL. 01 (OF 10) *** Produced by Mark C. Orton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT PAINTERS SCULPTORS AND ARCHITECTS BY GIORGIO VASARI VOLUME I. CIMABUE TO AGNOLO GADDI 1912 LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT PAINTERS SCULPTORS & ARCHITECTS BY GIORGIO VASARI: NEWLY TRANSLATED BY GASTON Du C. DE VERE. WITH FIVE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS: IN TEN VOLUMES [Illustration: 1511-1574] 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 FACING PAGE CIMABUE Madonna and Child Florence: Accademia, 102 10 GIOTTO Madonna and Child Florence: Accademia, 103 82 PIETRO LAURATI Madonna and Child, Assisi: Lower Church 118 with SS. Francis and John AMBROGIO Madonna and Child, Siena: Pinacoteca, 77 156 LORENZETTI with SS. Mary Magdalen and Dorothy SIMONE SANESE The Knighting of Assisi: Lower Church, S. Martin Chapel of S. Martin 168 LIPPO MEMMI Madonna and Child Berlin: Kaiser Friedrich Museum, 1081A 172 TADDEO GADDI The Presentation Florence: Accademia, 107 182 in the Temple ANDREA DI CIONE Christ Enthroned Florence: S. Maria ORCAGNA Novella, Strozzi Chapel 192 GIOTTINO The Descent from Florence: Uffizi, 27 206 the Cross PLATES IN MONOCHROME CIMABUE Madonna, Child, Paris: Louvre, 1260 2 and Angels ROMAN SCHOOL Isaac's Blessing Assisi: Upper Church 6 ROMAN SCHOOL The Deposition Assisi: Upper Church 6 from the Cross CIMABUE The Crucifixion Assisi: Upper Church 8 ARNOLFO DI LAPO Reclining Female Florence: (SCHOOL OF) Figure from a Tomb Collection Bardini 18 ARNOLFO DI LAPO Tomb of Adrian V Viterbo: S. Francesco 24 (SCHOOL OF) NICCOLA PISANO Pulpit Pisa: The Baptistery 30 NICCOLA PISANO Detail: The Pisa: Relief from the Adoration of Pulpit of the Baptistery 32 the Magi NICCOLA PISANO Detail: The Siena: Relief from Visitation and the Pulpit The Nativity of the Baptistery 34 GIOVANNI PISANO Detail: A Sibyl Siena: Duomo (facade) 38 GIOVANNI PISANO Detail: The Massacre Pistoia: Relief from the of the Innocents Pulpit, S. Andrea 40 GIOVANNI PISANO Madonna and Child Padua: Arena Chapel 42 MARGARITONE The Virgin and Child, London: N.G., 5040 64 with Scenes from the Lives of the Saints GIOTTO The Death of S. Francis Florence: S. Croce 70 ROMAN SCHOOL S. Francis Preaching Assisi: Upper Church 72 before Pope Honorius III ROMAN SCHOOL The Body of S. Francis Assisi: Upper Church 74 before the Church of S. Damiano GIOTTO AND HIS The Raising of Lazarus Assisi: Lower Church 78 PUPILS GIOTTO The Flight into Egypt Padua: Arena Chapel 88 GIOTTO The Crucifixion Assisi: Lower Church 90 (SCHOOL OF) UGOLINO SANESE SS. Paul, Peter, Berlin: Kaiser Friedrich and John the Baptist Museum, 1635 112 PIETRO LAURATI The Madonna Enthroned Arezzo: S. Maria della Pieve 116 PIETRO LAURATI The Deposition from the Assisi: Lower Church 120 Cross ANDREA PISANO Details: Salome and The Florence: Gates of the Beheading of S. John the Baptistery 126 Baptist ANDREA PISANO The Creation of Man Florence: Relief on the Campanile 128 NINO PISANO Madonna and Child Orvieto: Museo dell'Opera 130 AMBROGIO Madonna and Child Milan: Cagnola Collection 154 LORENZETTI AMBROGIO Central Panel of Massa Marittima: Municipio LORENZETTI Polyptych: Madonna 158 and Child PIETRO Detail from The Last Rome: Convent of S. Cecilia CAVALLINI Judgment: Head of an 162 Apostle PIETRO Detail from The Last Rome: Convent of S. Cecilia CAVALLINI Judgment: Head of the 164 Christ in Glory SIMONE SANESE Altar-piece: S. Louis Naples: S. Lorenzo 166 crowning King Robert of Naples SIMONE SANESE The Annunciation Antwerp: Royal Museum, 257-8 170 LIPPO MEMMI Madonna and Child Altenburg: Lindenau Museum, 43 174 TADDEO GADDI The Last Supper Florence: S. Croce, the Refectory 178 BERNARDO DI CIONE Detail from The Florence: S. Maria Novella 190 ORCAGNA Paradise: Christ with the Virgin Enthroned ANDREA DI CIONE The Death and Assumption Florence: Relief on the ORCAGNA of the Virgin Tabernacle, Or San Michele 194 FRANCESCO TRAINI S. Thomas Aquinas Pisa: S. Caterina 198 GIOVANNI DAL S. Peter Enthroned Florence: Uffizi, 1292 212 PONTE AGNOLO GADDI The Marriage of S. Philadelphia: J. G. Johnson 218 Catharine Collection * * * * * +-------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber's note: | | | |The CORRIGENDA have been corrected in this etext.| +-------------------------------------------------+ CORRIGENDA Page 49, lines 1, 27, _for_ "Apollonius" _read_ "Apollonio." Page 120, line 10, _for_ "which tabernacle is quite round" _read_ "which tabernacle is in the round." Page 127, lines 11, 12, _for_ "oval spaces" _read_ "mandorle." Page 196, line 18, _for_ "an oval space" _read_ "a mandorla." TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE TO THIS EDITION Vasari introduces himself sufficiently in his own prefaces and