The Lives of the Artists

Table of contents

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• Oxford World's Classics i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Introduction vii
• Note on the Translation xv
• Select Bibliography xviii
• A Chronology of Giorgio Vasari xxi
• Part One 1
• Preface to the Lives 3
• The Life of Cimabue, Florentine Painter [c. 1240-1302] 7
• The Life of Giotto, Florentine Painter, Sculptor, and Architect [1266/7-1337] 15
• The Life of Simone [martini] of Siena [c.1284-1344] 37
• Part Two 45
• Preface to Part Two 47
• The Life of Jacopo Della Quercia, Sienese Sculptor [c.1374-1438] 59
• The Life of Luca Della Robbia, Sculptor [c. 1400-1482] 66

• Oxford World's Classics i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Introduction vii
• Note on the Translation xv
• Select Bibliography xviii
• A Chronology of Giorgio Vasari xxi
• Part One 1
• Preface to the Lives 3
• The Life of Cimabue, Florentine Painter [c. 1240-1302] 7
• The Life of Giotto, Florentine Painter, Sculptor, and Architect [1266/7-1337] 15
• The Life of Simone [martini] of Siena [c.1284-1344] 37
• Part Two 45
• Preface to Part Two 47
• The Life of Jacopo Della Quercia, Sienese Sculptor [c.1374-1438] 59
• The Life of Luca Della Robbia, Sculptor [c. 1400-1482] 66
• The Life of Paolo Uccello, Florentine Painter [1397-1475] 74
• The Life of Lorenzo Ghiberti, Sculptor [c.1381-1455] 84
• The Life of Masaccio from San Giovanni Di Valdarno, Painter [1401-1428] 101
• The Life of Filippo Brunelleschi, Sculptor and Architect [1377-1446] 110
• The Life of Donatello, Florentine Sculptor [1386-1466] 147
• The Life of Piero Della Francesca, Painter from Borgo San Sepolcro [c.1420-1492] 163
• The Life of Fra Giovanni of Fiesole [fra Angelico] of the Order of Preaching Friars, Painter [c. 1387-1455] 169
• The Life of Leon Battista Alberti, Florentine Architect [1404-1472] 178
• The Life of Antonello Da Messina, Painter [c. 1430-1479] 185
• The Life of Fra Filippo Lippi, Florentine Painter [c. 1406-1469] 191
• The Life of Andrea Del Castagno of Mugello [c.1423-14571] and Domenico Veneziano [d. C.1461], Painters 201
• The Life of Domenico Ghirlandaio, Florentine Painter [1449-1494] 210
• The Life of Sandro Botticelli, Florentine Painter [1445-1510] 224
• The Life of Andrea Mantegna, Painter of Mantua [c.1431-1506] 242
• The Life of Bernardino Pinturicchio, Painter from Perugia [c. 1454-1513] 250
• The Life of Pietro Perugino, Painter [c.1450-1523] 256
• The Life of Luca Signorelli of Cortona, Painter [c. 1441-1523] 268
• Part Three 275
• Preface to Part Three 277
• The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci, Florentine Painter and Sculptor [1452-1519] 284
• The Life of Giorgione Da Castelfranco, Venetian Painter [c.1478-1510] 299
• The Life of Raphael of Urbino, Painter and Architect [1483-1520] 305
• The Life of Madonna Properzia De' Rossi, Sculptress from Bologna [ic.1490-1530] 339
• The Life of Rosso, Florentine Painter [1494-1540] 345
• The Life of Domenico Beccafumi, the Sienese Painter and Master Caster [1486-1551] 377
• The Life of Jacopo Da Pontormo, Florentine Painter [1494-1556] 394
• The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Florentine Painter, Sculptor, and Architect [1475-1564] 414
• The Author: to Artists of the Art of Design 509
• Explanatory Notes 512