E-text prepared by Mark C. Orton, Christine P. Travers, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/toronto) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 32362-h.htm or 32362-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/32362/pg32362-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32362/32362-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/livesofmostemine09vasauoft Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected. Hyphenation and accentuation have been made consistent. All other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been retained. Text enclosed by equal signs was in bold face (=bold=). LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT PAINTERS SCULPTORS & ARCHITECTS by GIORGIO VASARI: Volume IX. Michelagnolo to the Flemings 1915 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. 1912-15 CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX PAGE MICHELAGNOLO BUONARROTI 1 FRANCESCO PRIMATICCIO 143 TIZIANO DA CADORE 157 JACOPO SANSOVINO 185 LEONE LIONI OF AREZZO 227 DON GIULIO CLOVIO 243 DIVERS ITALIAN CRAFTSMEN STILL LIVING 255 DIVERS FLEMINGS 263 INDEX OF NAMES 273 ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME IX PLATES IN COLOUR FACING PAGE MICHELAGNOLO BUONARROTI The Holy Family Florence: Uffizi, 1,239 4 TIZIANO DA CADORE The Madonna of the Cherries Vienna: Imperial Gallery, 180 158 TIZIANO DA CADORE Sacred and Profane Love Rome: Borghese Gallery, 147 164 TIZIANO DA CADORE The Duke of Norfolk Florence: Pitti, 92 168 TIZIANO DA CADORE The Education of Cupid Rome: Borghese Gallery, 170 176