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: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected. Hyphenation and accentuation have been standardised, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained. Bold text is marked with =.] LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT PAINTERS SCULPTORS & ARCHITECTS BY GIORGIO VASARI: VOLUME X. BRONZINO TO VASARI & GENERAL INDEX 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 X PAGE ACADEMICIANS OF DESIGN, PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, AND ARCHITECTS 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE FESTIVE PREPARATIONS FOR THE NUPTIALS OF THE PRINCE DON FRANCESCO OF TUSCANY 37 GIORGIO VASARI 171 INDEX OF NAMES 227 GENERAL INDEX, VOLUMES I TO X 233 ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME X PLATES IN MONOCHROME FACING PAGE AGNOLO BRONZINO Bartolommeo Panciatichi Florence: Uffizi, 159 4 AGNOLO BRONZINO Eleanora de Toledo and her Son Florence: Uffizi, 172 6 AGNOLO BRONZINO Christ in Limbo Florence: Uffizi, 1271 8 ALESSANDRO ALLORI Giuliano de' Medici Florence: Uffizi, 193 12 BENVENUTO CELLINI Perseus Florence: Loggia de' Lanzi 22 GIOVANNI BOLOGNA Fountain of Neptune Bologna 24 GIOVANNI BOLOGNA Mercury Florence: Museo Nazionale 26 VINCENZIO DANTI The Brazen Serpent Florence: Museo Nazionale 28 VINCENZIO DANTI Bronze Relief Florence: Museo Nazionale 30 GIORGIO VASARI Lorenzo the Magnificent and the Ambassadors Florence: Palazzo Vecchio 208 GIORGIO VASARI Fresco in the Hall of Lorenzo the Magnificent Florence: Palazzo Vecchio 214 OF THE ACADEMICIANS OF DESIGN, PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, AND ARCHITECTS, AND OF THEIR WORKS, AND FIRST OF BRONZINO