Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 02 (of 10)
Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi
This second volume of Gaston du C. de Vere's translation of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, published by the Medici Society between 1912 and 1914, completes the artists of the fourteenth century and opens the second part of the Lives. It runs from Barna of Siena, Duccio, Spinello Aretino and Lorenzo Monaco to the founders of the Florentine Renaissance: Jacopo della Quercia, Luca della Robbia, Paolo Uccello, Lorenzo Ghiberti and his bronze doors, Masolino, Masaccio, Filippo Brunelleschi and the dome of Florence cathedral, Donatello and Michelozzo. Vasari, himself a painter and architect, mixes anecdote, appraisal and description, and this edition is illustrated with plates. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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