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Title: The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)

Author: Giorgio Vasari

Release Date: April 24, 2007 [eBook #21212]

Language: English

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THE LIVES OF THE PAINTERS, SCULPTORS & ARCHITECTS

by

GIORGIO VASARI

In Eight Volumes

Vol. One

CONTENTS

CIMABUE (1240-1302)
ARNOLFO DI LAPO (1232-1310)
BONANNO (fl. 1174-1186
LAPO (1190-1260)
NICCOLA AND GIOVANNI PISANI fl 1205, 1278, 1250-1328)
ANDREA TAFI (1250-1320)
GADDO GADDI (1259-1333)
MARGARITONE (1210-1293)
GIOTTO (1267-1337)
PUCCIO CAPANNA (fl. 1350)
AGOSTINO AND AGNOLO (fl. 1286-1330)
STEFANO AND UGOLINO (1301-1350, 1260-1339)
PIETRO LAURATI (died c. 1350)
ANDREA PISANO (1270-1348)
BUONAMICO BUFFALMACCO (fl. 1311-1351)
AMBRUOGIO LORENZETTI (died c. 1338)
PIETRO CAVALLINI (1259-1334)
SIMONE MARTINI AND LIPPO MEMMI (1285-1344; died 1357)

PREFACE TO THE LIVES

I am aware that it is commonly held as a fact by most writers that
sculpture, as well as painting, was naturally discovered originally
by the people of Egypt, and also that there are others who attribute
to the Chaldeans the first rough carvings of statues and the first
reliefs. In like manner there are those who credit the Greeks with
the invention of the brush and of colouring. But it is my opinion
that design, which is the creative principle in both arts, came into
existence at the time of the origin of all things. When the Most High
created the world and adorned the heavens with shining lights, His
perfect intellect passing through the limpid air and alighting on the
solid earth, formed man, thus disclosing the first form of sculpture
and painting in the charming invention of things. Who will deny that
from this man, as from a living example, the ideas of statues and
sculpture, and the questions of pose