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Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574):

Lives of the Artists, selections

1. Cimabue and Giotto
2. The Gaddi and Buffalmacco
3. Andrea della Cione Orcagna, Spinello, Dello, and Paolo Uccello
4. Luca della Robbia and Lorenzo Ghiberti
5. Filippo di ser Brunelesco
6. Donatello
7. Fra Angelico
8. Antonello da Messina, Andrea dal Castagno, and Domenico Veneziano
9. Filippo Lippi and Botticelli
10. Piero della Francesca and Luca Signorelli
11. Ghirlandajo, Cosimo Roselli, and Piero di Cosimo
12. Fra Bartolommeo and Mariotto Albertinelli
13. The Bellini and Andrea Mantegna
14. Lionardo da Vinci
15. Giorgione and Fra Sebastiano del Piombo
16. Perugino and Raffaello
17. Andrea del Sarto
18. Maturino and Polidoro and Monsignori
19. Il Rosso
20. Parmagiono
21. Perino del Vaga
22. Baccio Bandinelli
23. Rusticci
24. Salviati
25. Titian
26. Michael Angelo

Source. These texts were at http://ubmail.ubalt.edu/~pfitz/ART/REN/VASARI.HTM,but vanished from the net, and so they have been restored here.

Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574. Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors & architects, by Giorgio Vasari: newly tr. by Gaston du C. de Vere. With five hundred illustraiions, London, Macmillan and & The Medici society, 1912-15.

Other translations include:

Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574. The lives of the painters, sculptors and architects. London, J. M. Dent; New York, Dutton [1949-50]). This is available in full at University of Adelaid ebooks.

Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574.  Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors, and architects. Abridged from the translation by Gaston DuC. DeVere. Edited, with an introd., by Robert N. Linscott. New York, Modern Library [1959].

Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574. Lives of the artists. Selected and translated by E.L. Seeley. Introd. by Alfred Werner. (New York, Noonday Press, [1965, c1957]).

Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574. Lives of the artists; a selection translated by George Bull. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng. : Penguin Books, 1987.

Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574. The lives of the artists; translated with an introduction and notes by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella. (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.).

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