Produced by Mark C. Orton, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) [Transcriber's note: Bold text is marked with =." Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained.] LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT PAINTERS SCULPTORS & ARCHITECTS BY GIORGIO VASARI: VOLUME VI. FRA GIOCONDO TO NICCOLO SOGGI 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 VI PAGE FRA GIOCONDO, LIBERALE, AND OTHERS 1 FRANCESCO GRANACCI [IL GRANACCIO] 55 BACCIO D' AGNOLO 63 VALERIO VICENTINO [VALERIO BELLI], GIOVANNI DA CASTEL BOLOGNESE [GIOVANNI BERNARDI], MATTEO DAL NASSARO, AND OTHERS 73 MARC' ANTONIO BOLOGNESE, AND OTHERS 89 ANTONIO DA SAN GALLO 121 GIULIO ROMANO 143 FRA SEBASTIANO VINIZIANO DEL PIOMBO 171 PERINO DEL VAGA 187 GIORGIO VASARI, TO THE CRAFTSMEN IN DESIGN 227 DOMENICO BECCAFUMI 233 GIOVANNI ANTONIO LAPPOLI 253 NICCOLO SOGGI 267 INDEX OF NAMES 281 ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME VI PLATES IN COLOUR FACING PAGE GIOVAN FRANCESCO CAROTO Elisabetta Gonzaga, Duchess of Mantua Florence: Uffizi, 1121 16 FRANCESCO MONSIGNORI (BONSIGNORI) Portrait of a Gentleman London: N.G., 736 28 FRANCESCO MORONE Madonna and Child London: N.G., 285 32 GIROLAMO DAI LIBRI Madonna and Child, with S. Anne London: N.G., 748 48 FRANCESCO GRANACCI (IL GRANACCIO) The Holy Family Florence: Pitti, 199 58 FRA SEBASTIANO VINIZIANO DEL PIOMBO Portrait of a Lady Florence: Uffizi, 1123 174