Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1
Giorgio Vasari
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The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies written by 16th century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most- read work of the older literature of art", "some of the Italian Renaissance's most influential writing on art", and "one of the founding texts in art history".
Vasari's work has been described as "by far the most influential single text for the history of Renaissance art" and "the most important work of Renaissance biography of artists". Its influence is situated mainly in three domains: as an example for contemporary and later biographers and art historians, as a defining factor in the view on the Renaissance and the role of Florence and Rome in it, and as a major source of information on the lives and works of early Italian artists.
(Summary by Wikipedia) (8 hr 42 min)
Chapters
Translator's Preface and Dedications to Cosimo de Medici | 14:41 | Read by Viglione |
Preface to the Whole Work | 36:46 | Read by Marianne Coleman-Hipkins |
Preface to the Lives | 59:03 | Read by Leni |
Giovanni Cimabue | 17:43 | Read by MorganScorpion |
Arnolfo di Lapo | 32:27 | Read by Miriam Esther Goldman (1991-2017) |
Niccola and Giovanni of Pisa | 43:00 | Read by Rachel Steely |
Andrea Tafi | 11:00 | Read by MorganScorpion |
Gaddo Gaddi | 11:32 | Read by MorganScorpion |
Margaritone | 10:29 | Read by MorganScorpion |
Giotto (part 1) | 27:05 | Read by Sibella Denton |
Giotto (part 2) | 30:44 | Read by Sibella Denton |
Agostino and Agnolo of Siena | 20:25 | Read by MorganScorpion |
Stefano and Ugolino Sanese | 11:40 | Read by MorganScorpion |
Pietro Laurati | 9:22 | Read by MorganScorpion |
Andrea Pisano | 20:26 | Read by MorganScorpion |
Buonamico Buffalmacco (part 1) | 21:27 | Read by Sibella Denton |
Buonamico Buffalmacco (part 2) | 15:54 | Read by Sibella Denton |
Ambrogio Lorenzetti | 7:03 | Read by Miriam Esther Goldman (1991-2017) |
Pietro Cavallini | 9:27 | Read by MorganScorpion |
Simone Sanese | 18:46 | Read by MorganScorpion |
Taddeo Gaddi | 28:20 | Read by Bellona Times |
Andrea di Cione Orcagna | 23:55 | Read by Sibella Denton |
Tommaso, called Giottino | 17:55 | Read by Linda Dodge |
Giovanni dal Ponte | 6:01 | Read by Leni |
Agnolo Gaddi | 17:26 | Read by Leni |