Part 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

LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO. LD. & THE MEDICI SOCIETY, LD. 1912-14

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I

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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