Produced by Mark C. Orton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT PAINTERS SCULPTORS AND ARCHITECTS BY GIORGIO VASARI VOLUME I. CIMABUE TO AGNOLO GADDI 1912 LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT PAINTERS SCULPTORS & ARCHITECTS BY GIORGIO VASARI: NEWLY TRANSLATED BY GASTON Du C. DE VERE. WITH FIVE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS: IN TEN VOLUMES [Illustration: 1511-1574] LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO. LD. & THE MEDICI SOCIETY, LD. 1912-14 CONTENTS OF VOLUME I PAGE TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE TO THIS EDITION xi DEDICATIONS TO COSIMO DE' MEDICI EDITION OF 1550 xiii EDITION OF 1568 xvii IMPRIMATUR OF POPE PIUS V xxi THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE WHOLE WORK xxiii THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THE LIVES xxxvii GIOVANNI CIMABUE 1 ARNOLFO DI LAPO 11 NICCOLA AND GIOVANNI OF PISA [NICCOLA PISANO: GIOVANNI PISANO] 27 ANDREA TAFI 45 GADDO GADDI 53 MARGARITONE 61 GIOTTO 69 AGOSTINO AND AGNOLO OF SIENA 95 STEFANO AND UGOLINO SANESE [UGOLINO DA SIENA] 107 PIETRO LAURATI [PIETRO LORENZETTI] 115 ANDREA PISANO 121 BUONAMICO BUFFALMACCO 133 AMBROGIO LORENZETTI 153 PIETRO CAVALLINI 159 SIMONE SANESE [SIMONE MEMMI _OR_ MARTINI] 165 TADDEO GADDI 175 ANDREA DI CIONE ORCAGNA 187 TOMMASO, CALLED GIOTTINO 201 GIOVANNI DAL PONTE 209 AGNOLO GADDI 215 INDEX OF NAMES 225 ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME I PLATES IN COLOUR FACING PAGE CIMABUE Madonna and Child Florence: Accademia, 102 10 GIOTTO Madonna and Child Florence: Accademia, 103 82