Lives of the Most Eminent Painters (Volume 1)

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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