Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects

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by  Giorgio Vasari

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects
Giorgio Vasari
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects
Table of Contents
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects.......................................................................1
Giorgio Vasari..........................................................................................................................................2
LIFE OF FILIPPO LIPPI, CALLED FILIPPINO...................................................................................9
BERNARDINO PINTURICCHIO........................................................................................................13
LIFE OF BERNARDINO PINTURICCHIO.........................................................................................14
FRANCESCO FRANCIA.....................................................................................................................17
LIFE OF FRANCESCO FRANCIA......................................................................................................18
PIETRO PERUGINO............................................................................................................................22
LIFE OF PIETRO PERUGINO.............................................................................................................23
VITTORE SCARPACCIA (CARPACCIO), AND OTHER VENETIAN AND LOMBARD
PAINTERS...........................................................................................................................................31
LIVES OF VITTORE SCARPACCIA (CARPACCIO), AND OF OTHER VENETIAN AND
LOMBARD PAINTERS......................................................................................................................32
JACOPO, CALLED L'INDACO...........................................................................................................38
LIFE OF JACOPO, CALLED L'INDACO...........................................................................................39
LUCA SIGNORELLI OF CORTONA..................................................................................................41
LIFE OF LUCA SIGNORELLI OF CORTONA..................................................................................42
THE THIRD PART OF THE LIVES OF THE SCULPTORS, PAINTERS, AND
ARCHITECTS, WHO HAVE LIVED FROM CIMABUE TO OUR OWN DAY. WRITTEN
BY MESSER GIORGIO VASARI, PAINTER AND ARCHITECT OF AREZZO.......................45
PREFACE TO THE THIRD PART......................................................................................................46
LEONARDO DA VINCI.......................................................................................................................49
LIFE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI[10]................................................................................................50
GIORGIONE DA CASTELFRANCO..................................................................................................59
LIFE OF GIORGIONE DA CASTELFRANCO...................................................................................60
ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO..............................................................................................................63
LIFE OF ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO...............................................................................................64
PIERO DI COSIMO..............................................................................................................................67
LIFE OF PIERO DI COSIMO...............................................................................................................68
BRAMANTE DA URBINO..................................................................................................................73
LIFE OF BRAMANTE DA URBINO..................................................................................................74
FRA BARTOLOMMEO DI SAN MARCO.........................................................................................80
LIFE OF FRA BARTOLOMMEO DI SAN MARCO..........................................................................81
MARIOTTO ALBERTINELLI.............................................................................................................87
LIFE OF MARIOTTO ALBERTINELLI.............................................................................................88
RAFFAELLINO DEL GARBO............................................................................................................92
LIFE OF RAFFAELLINO DEL GARBO.............................................................................................93
TORRIGIANO.......................................................................................................................................96
LIFE OF TORRIGIANO.......................................................................................................................97
GIULIANO AND ANTONIO DA SAN GALLO...............................................................................100
LIVES OF GIULIANO AND ANTONIO DA SAN GALLO............................................................101
RAFFAELLO DA URBINO...............................................................................................................108
LIFE OF RAFFAELLO DA URBINO................................................................................................109
GUGLIELMO DA MARCILLA.........................................................................................................129
LIFE OF GUGLIELMO DA MARCILLA..........................................................................................130
SIMONE..............................................................................................................................................135
LIFE OF SIMONE, CALLED IL CRONACA....................................................................................136
DOMENICO PULIGO........................................................................................................................141
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• LIFE OF FILIPPO LIPPI, CALLED FILIPPINO
• BERNARDINO PINTURICCHIO
• LIFE OF BERNARDINO PINTURICCHIO
• FRANCESCO FRANCIA
• LIFE OF FRANCESCO FRANCIA
• PIETRO PERUGINO
• LIFE OF PIETRO PERUGINO
• VITTORE SCARPACCIA (CARPACCIO), AND OTHER VENETIAN AND LOMBARD PAINTERS
• LIVES OF VITTORE SCARPACCIA (CARPACCIO), AND OF OTHER VENETIAN AND LOMBARD
PAINTERS
• JACOPO, CALLED L'INDACO
• LIFE OF JACOPO, CALLED L'INDACO
• LUCA SIGNORELLI OF CORTONA
• LIFE OF LUCA SIGNORELLI OF CORTONA
• THE THIRD PART OF THE LIVES OF THE SCULPTORS, PAINTERS, AND ARCHITECTS, WHO
HAVE LIVED FROM CIMABUE TO OUR OWN DAY. WRITTEN BY MESSER GIORGIO
VASARI, PAINTER AND ARCHITECT OF AREZZO
• PREFACE TO THE THIRD PART
• LEONARDO DA VINCI
• LIFE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI[10]
• GIORGIONE DA CASTELFRANCO
• LIFE OF GIORGIONE DA CASTELFRANCO
• ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO
• LIFE OF ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO
• PIERO DI COSIMO
• LIFE OF PIERO DI COSIMO
• BRAMANTE DA URBINO
• LIFE OF BRAMANTE DA URBINO
• FRA BARTOLOMMEO DI SAN MARCO
• LIFE OF FRA BARTOLOMMEO DI SAN MARCO
• MARIOTTO ALBERTINELLI
• LIFE OF MARIOTTO ALBERTINELLI
• RAFFAELLINO DEL GARBO
• LIFE OF RAFFAELLINO DEL GARBO
• TORRIGIANO
• LIFE OF TORRIGIANO
• GIULIANO AND ANTONIO DA SAN GALLO
• LIVES OF GIULIANO AND ANTONIO DA SAN GALLO
• RAFFAELLO DA URBINO
• LIFE OF RAFFAELLO DA URBINO
• GUGLIELMO DA MARCILLA
• LIFE OF GUGLIELMO DA MARCILLA
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• SIMONE
• LIFE OF SIMONE, CALLED IL CRONACA
• DOMENICO PULIGO
• LIFE OF DOMENICO PULIGO
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LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT PAINTERS SCULPTORS &ARCHITECTS BY GIORGIO
VASARI:
VOLUME IV. FILIPPINO LIPPI TO DOMENICO PULIGO 1913
NEWLY TRANSLATED BY GASTON Du C. DE VERE. WITH FIVE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS:
IN TEN VOLUMES
[Illustration: 1511−1574]
PHILIP LEE WARNER, PUBLISHER TO THE MEDICI SOCIETY, LIMITED 7 GRAFTON ST.
LONDON, W. 1912−14
CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV
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FILIPPO LIPPI, CALLED FILIPPINO 1
BERNARDINO PINTURICCHIO 11
FRANCESCO FRANCIA 21
PIETRO PERUGINO [PIETRO VANNUCCI, OR PIETRO DA CASTEL DELLA
PIEVE] 31
VITTORE SCARPACCIA [CARPACCIO], AND OTHER VENETIAN AND LOMBARD
PAINTERS 49
JACOPO, CALLED L'INDACO 63
LUCA SIGNORELLI [LUCA DA CORTONA] 69
THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE THIRD PART 77
LEONARDO DA VINCI 87
GIORGIONE DA CASTELFRANCO 107
ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO 115
PIERO DI COSIMO 123
BRAMANTE DA URBINO 135
FRA BARTOLOMMEO DI SAN MARCO [BACCIO DELLA PORTA] 149
MARIOTTO ALBERTINELLI 163
RAFFAELLINO DEL GARBO 173
TORRIGIANO 181
GIULIANO AND ANTONIO DA SAN GALLO 189
RAFFAELLO DA URBINO [RAFFAELLO SANZIO] 207
GUGLIELMO DA MARCILLA [GUILLAUME DE MARCILLAC] 251
SIMONE, CALLED IL CRONACA [SIMONE DEL POLLAIUOLO] 263
DOMENICO PULIGO 277
INDEX OF NAMES 285
ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME IV
PLATES IN COLOUR
FACING PAGE
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FILIPPO LIPPI (FILIPPINO)
The Vision of S. Bernard
Florence: Church of the Badia 2
BERNARDINO PINTURICCHIO
The Madonna in Glory
San Gimignano: Palazzo Pubblico 14
BENEDETTO BUONFIGLIO
Madonna, Child, and Three Angels
Perugia: Pinacoteca 18
FRANCESCO FRANCIA
Pietà
London: N.G., 180 26
PIETRO PERUGINO
Apollo and Marsyas
Paris: Louvre, 1509 34
PIETRO PERUGINO
Triptych: The Madonna adoring, with the Archangels
Michael, Raphael, and Tobit
London: N.G., 288 42
VITTORE SCARPACCIA (CARPACCIO)
The Vision of S. Ursula
Venice: Accademia, 578 56
VINCENZIO CATENA
S. Jerome in his Study
London: N.G., 694 58
GIOVAN BATTISTA DA CONIGLIANO (CIMA)
Detail: Tobit and the Angel
Venice: Accademia, 592 58
LUCA SIGNORELLI
Pan
Berlin: Kaiser Friedrich Museum, 79A 72
ANDREA VERROCCHIO
The Baptism in Jordan
Florence: Accademia, 71 92
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Monna Lisa
(formerly) Paris: Louvre, 1601 102
GIORGIONE DA CASTELFRANCO
Figures in a Landscape
Venice: Prince Giovanelli's Collection 110
ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO
Antiope
Paris: Louvre, 1118 118
ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO
The Adoration of the Magi
Milan: Brera, 427 122
PIERO DI COSIMO
The Death of Procris
London: N.G., 698 126
FRA BARTOLOMMEO DI SAN MARCO
The Deposition from the Cross
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Florence: Pitti, 64 152
MARIOTTO ALBERTINELLI
The Salutation
Florence: Uffizi, 1259 168
RAFFAELLO DA URBINO
S. George and the Dragon
S. Petersburg: Hermitage, 39 210
RAFFAELLO DA URBINO
Angelo Doni
Florence: Pitti, 61 214
RAFFAELLO DA URBINO
The Three Graces
Chantilly, 38 242
RAFFAELLO DA URBINO
Baldassare Gastiglione
Paris: Louvre, 1505 248
PLATES IN MONOCHROME
FACING PAGE
FILIPPO LIPPI (FILIPPINO)
The Liberation of S. Peter
Florence: S. Maria Del Carmine 6
FILIPPO LIPPI (FILIPPINO)
S. John the Evangelist Raising Drusiana from the Dead
Florence: S. Maria Novella, Strozzi Chapel 8
FILIPPO LIPPI (FILIPPINO)
The Adoration of the Magi
Florence: Uffizi, 1257 10
BERNARDINO PINTURICCHIO
Frederick III Crowning the Poet Æneas Sylvius
Siena: Sala Piccolominea 16
BERNARDINO PINTURICCHIO
Pope Alexander VI Adoring the Risen Christ
Rome: the Vatican, Borgia Apartments 16
FRANCESCO FRANCIA AND A PUPIL
Medals
London: British Museum 22
FRANCESCO FRANCIA
Madonna and Child, with Saints
Bologna: S. Giacomo Maggiore, Bentivoglio Chapel 24
PIETRO PERUGINO
The Deposition
Florence: Pitti, 164 38
PIETRO PERUGINO
Christ Giving the Keys to S. Peter
Rome: Sistine Chapel 40
PIETRO PERUGINO
Fortitude and Temperance, with Warriors
Perugia: Collegio Del Cambio 40
GIOVANNI (LO SPAGNA)
Madonna and Child, with Saints
Assisi: Lower Church 46
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STEFANO DA VERONA (DA ZEVIO)
The Madonna and Child with S. Catharine in a Rose Garden
Verona: Gallery, 559 52
ALDIGIERI DA ZEVIO (ALTICHIERO)
Presentation to the Madonna of Three Knights of the Cavalli
Family
Verona: S. Anastasia 54
VITTORE SCARPACCIA (CARPACCIO)
S. George and the Dragon
Venice: S. Giorgio Degli Schiavoni 56
MARCO BASSITI (BASAITI)
Christ on the Mount of Olives
Venice: Accademia, 69 60
GIOVANNI BUONCONSIGLI
Pietà
Vicenza: Pinacoteca, 22 60
LUCA SIGNORELLI
Detail: The Last Judgment
Orvieto: Duomo 74
LEONARDO DA VINCI
The Adoration of the Magi
Florence: Uffizi, 1252 94
LEONARDO DA VINCI
The Last Supper
Milan: S. Maria delle Grazie 96
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Cartoon: The Madonna and Child with S. Anne
London: Burlington House 98
LEONARDO DA VINCI (?)
Fragment of Cartoon: The Battle of the Standard
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum 104
GIOVAN ANTONIO BOLTRAFFIO
Man and Woman Praying
Milan: Brera, 281 104
GIORGIONE DA CASTELFRANCO
Portrait of a Young Man
Berlin: Kaiser Friedrich Museum, 12A 112
GIORGIONE DA CASTELFRANCO
Judith
S. Petersburg: Hermitage, 112 112
GIORGIONE DA CASTELFRANCO (?)
Caterina, Queen of Cyprus
Milan: Crespi Collection 114
ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO
Detail: S. Thomas and S. James the Less
Parma: S. Giovanni Evangelista 120
ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO
The Madonna and Child with S. Jerome
Parma: Gallery, 351 120
PIERO DI COSIMO
Perseus delivering Andromeda
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Florence: Uffizi, 1312 128
PIERO DI COSIMO
Venus, Mars, and Cupid
Berlin: Kaiser Friedrich Museum, 107 130
PIERO DI COSIMO
Francesco Giamberti
Hague: Royal Museum, 255 134
BRAMANTE DA URBINO
Interior of Sacristy
Milan: S. Satiro 138
BRAMANTE DA URBINO
Tempietto
Rome: S. Pietro in Montorio 142
BRAMANTE DA URBINO
Palazzo Giraud
Rome 146
FRA BARTOLOMMEO DI SAN MARCO
The Holy Family
Rome: Corsini Gallery, 579 154
FRA BARTOLOMMEO DI SAN MARCO
S. Mark
Florence: Pitti, 125 158
FRA BARTOLOMMEO DI SAN MARCO
God the Father, with SS. Mary Magdalen and Catharine
Lucca: Gallery, 12 160
MARIOTTO ALBERTINELLI
The Madonna enthroned, with Saints
Florence: Accademia, 167 166
RAFFAELLINO DEL GARBO
The Resurrection
Florence: Accademia, 90 176
TORRIGIANO
Tomb of Henry VII
London: Westminster Abbey 186
GIULIANO DA SAN GALLO
Façade of S. Maria delle Carceri
Prato 194
RAFFAELLO DA URBINO
Lo Sposalizio
Milan: Brera, 472 212
RAFFAELLO DA URBINO
Maddalena Doni
Florence: Pitti, 59 212
RAFFAELLO DA URBINO
“The School of Athens”
Rome: The Vatican 216
RAFFAELLO DA URBINO
The “Disputa del Sacramento”
Rome: The Vatican 222
RAFFAELLO DA URBINO
The Mass of Bolsena
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