GIORGIO VASARI'S LIVES OF THE ARTISTS

Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists

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A note on the translations: The only full English translation of Vasari's Lives is that by Gaston C. DeVere, 1912/1915, still somewhat incomplete and rather strangely translated in a stilted, Edwardian style. The Lives will eventually be presented, unabridged, using the DeVere and checked against the original.
Giorgio Vasari--Le vite: (1550) On the Artist Bibliographies
Vasari 1550 and 1568 Vite
Bibliography for Vasari the Art Historian
Online Editions of the Vite

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Please also see:
Resources in Art History for Graduate Students and
A Guide to Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture

Translator DeVere's "Preface to this Edition"

Preface to the Lives

Part I


Cimabue	Arnolfo di Lapo (di Cambio)	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 and Lippo Memmi

Taddeo Gaddi	Andrea di Cione Orcagna	Tommaso called Giottino	Giovanni dal Ponte	Agnolo Gaddi	Barna da Siena	Duccio	Antonio Veneziano

Jacopo del Casentino	Spinello Aretino	Gherardo Starnina	Lippo	Lorenzo Monaco	Taddeo di Bartolo	Lorenzo di Bicci

Part II

Preface to the Second Part


Jacopo della Quercia	Niccolo di Piero Lamberti	Dello Delli	Nanni di Banco	Luca Della Robbia and family	Paolo Uccello	Lorenzo Ghiberti	Masolino da Panicale

Parri Spinelli	Masaccio di San Giovanni	Filippo Brunelleschi	Donatello	Michelozzo Michelozzi	Antonio Filarete and Simone	Giuliano da Maiano	Piero della Francesca

Fra Angelico	Leon Battista Alberti	Lazzaro Vasari	Antonello da Messina	Alesso Baldovinetti	Vellano da Padova (Bellano)	Fra Filippo Lippi	Paolo Romano, Maestro Mino, C. Camicia

Domenico Veneziano and Andrea del Castagno	Gentile da Fabriano and Antonio Pisanello	Pesello e Francesco Peselli (Pesellino)	Benozzo Gozzoli	Francesco di Giorgio and Lorenzo Vecchietto	Galasso Galassi	Antonio and Bernardo Rossellino	Desiderio da Settignano

Mino da Fiesole	Lorenzo Costa	Ercole Roberti	Jacopo, Giovanni and Gentile Bellini	Cosimo Rosselli	Il Cecca	Don Bartolomeo della Gatta	Gherardo, the miniaturist

Domenico Ghirlandaio	Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo	Sandro Botticelli	Benedetto da Maiano	Andrea del Verrocchio	Andrea Mantegna	Filippino Lippi	Bernardino Pinturicchio

Francesco Francia	Pietro Perugino	Vittore Scarpaccia (Carpaccio)	Jacopo L'Indaco	Luca Signorelli

Part III

Introduction to the Third Part


Leonardo da Vinci	Giorgione da Castelfranco	Antonio da Correggio	Piero di Cosimo	Bramante	Fra Bartolommeo	Mariotto Albertinelli	Raffaellino del Garbo

Pietro Torrigiano	Giuliano and Antonio da San Gallo	Raphael of Urbino	Guglielmo da Marcillat	Il Cronaca	Domenico Puligo	Andrea da Fiesole and Silvio Cosini	Vincenzo da San Gimignano, Timoteo da Urbino

Andrea Sansovino	Benedetto da Rovezzano	Baccio and Raffaello da Montelupo	Lorenzo di Credi	Lorenzetto and Boccaccino	Baldassare Peruzzi	Giovan Francesco Penni and Pellegrino da Modena	Andrea del Sarto

Madonna Properzia de'Rossi	Alfonso Lombardi to Dosso and Battista Dossi	Giovanni Antonio Licinio da Pordenone	Giovanni Antonio Sogliani	Girolamo da Treviso	Polidoro da Caravaggio and Maturino	Il Rosso Fiorentino

Bartolommeo da Bagnacavallo	Franciabigio	Morto da Feltre and Andrea di Cosimo	Marco Calavrese	Francesco Mazzuoli (Parmigianino)	Jacopo Palma [Vecchio], Lorenzo Lotto, and Others	Fra Giocondo	Fra Giocondo, Liberale da Verona

Giovan Francesco Caroto and Giovanni Caroto	Francesco Torbido, Battista del Moro, and Orlando Fiacco	Francesco Monsignori, Domenico Morrone, Paolo Cavazzuola	Falconetto and Bartolommeo Ridolfi	Francesco dai Libri and Girolamo dai Libri	Francesco Granacci	Baccio d'Agnolo	Valerio Belli, Giovanni da Castel Bolognese, and Others

Marcantonio Bolognese (Raimondi) and Others	Antonio da San Gallo the Younger	Giulio Romano	Sebastiano del Piombo	Perino del Vaga	Domenico Beccafumi	Giovan Antonio Lappoli	Niccolo Soggi

Niccolo, called Il Tribolo	Pierino da Vinci	Baccio Bandinelli	Giuliano Bugiardini	Cristofano Gherardi, called Doceno	Jacopo da Pontormo	Simone Mosca	Girolamo and Bartolommeo Genga, and G. Battista San Marino

Michele Sanmicheli	Il Sodoma	Bastiano, called Aristotile da San Gallo	Benvenuto Garofalo	Girolamo Da Carpi	Lombard Sculptors and Painters	Sofonisba Anguisciuola and Others	Milanese Artists

Ridolfo, David and Benedetto Ghirlandaio	Giovanni da Udine	Battista Franco	Jacopo Tintoretto	Andrea Schiavone	Giovan Francesco Rustici	Fra Giovann' Agnolo Montorsoli	Francesco Salviati

Daniele da Volterra (Ricciarelli)	Taddeo Zucchero	Michelangelo	Francesco Primaticcio	Titian	Paris Bordone	Jacopo Sansovino	Solosmeo da Settignano and Jacopo Colonna

Tiziano da Padova [Minio] and Pietro da Salo	Alessandro Vittoria	Tommaso da Lugano and Jacopo Bresciano	Bartolommeo Ammanati	Danese Cattaneo	Andrea Palladio	Leone Leoni and others	Giulio Clovio

Other Italian Artists "still living"	Other Flemish Artists	On the Academy of Design: Bronzino, Cellini, and others	Description of the Works of Giorgio Vasari

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Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists

Giorgio Vasari--Le vite: (1550) On the Artist Bibliographies
Vasari 1550 and 1568 Vite
Bibliography for Vasari the Art Historian
Online Editions of the Vite

Please also see:
Resources in Art History for Graduate Students and
A Guide to Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture

Translator DeVere's "Preface to this Edition"

Preface to the Lives

Preface to the Second Part

Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists

Giorgio Vasari--Le vite: (1550) On the Artist Bibliographies Vasari 1550 and 1568 Vite Bibliography for Vasari the Art Historian Online Editions of the Vite

Please also see: Resources in Art History for Graduate Students and A Guide to Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture

Translator DeVere's "Preface to this Edition"

Preface to the Lives

Preface to the Second Part

Giorgio Vasari--Le vite: (1550) On the Artist Bibliographies
Vasari 1550 and 1568 Vite
Bibliography for Vasari the Art Historian
Online Editions of the Vite

Please also see:
Resources in Art History for Graduate Students and
A Guide to Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture