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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 04 (of 10)

by Giorgio Vasari

Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo

Translated by Gaston du C. De VereAbout 6 h 25 min of reading30 chapters

Giorgio Vasari's Lives, first published in 1550 and expanded in 1568, founded the history of art as a story of individual artists. This fourth volume of Gaston du C. De Vere's complete translation, published from 1912, runs from Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo. It covers Pinturicchio, Francia, Perugino, Carpaccio and other Venetian painters, and Signorelli, then crosses into the third part of the Lives, opened by Vasari's preface on the perfection of the arts, with Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgione, Correggio, Piero di Cosimo, Bramante, Fra Bartolommeo, the Sangallo brothers and Raphael. Vasari mixes anecdote, criticism and gossip, writing as a working painter who knew many of the people he describes. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.

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