- Museum number
- 1938,1108.9.1
- Description
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Illustrated volume of Giorgio Vasari, 'Le vite de' piu eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori... prima, e seconda parte' (Florence: Giunti, 1568). Title-page: ornate architectural frame supported by figures and surmounted by Medici coat of arms; title in cartouche at top, supported by putti, vignette of Florence in cartouche below, supported by satyresses; on verso of title-page, (part of) the same frame with design of the Last Judgement, men being raised from the ground by a winged figure blowing a three-ended trumpet and holding a torch, watched by female figures representing Painting, Sculpture and Architecture; below, motto in cartouche: 'Hac sospite nunquam hos periisse viros, victos aut morte fatebor.' Preceding main text, bust portrait of the author in oval lettered 'Giorgio Vasarii pittore et architetto Aretino.', in (part of) the same frame as the title-page; below, vignette of Florence in cartouche.
Illustrated before each biography with bust portraits of the subjects, in ovals within ornate architectural frames decorated with figures, some frames left empty. First part; portraits as follows: Giovanni Cimabue (p.82), Arnolfo di Lapo (p.88), Nicolo Pisano (p.97), Andrea Tafi (p.107), Gaddo Gaddi (p.111), Margaritone (p.115), Giotto (p.118), Agostino of Siena (p.134), Stefano Fiorentino (p.140), Pietro Laurati (Lorenzetti) (p.144), Andrea Pisano (p.147), Buonamico Buffalmacco (p.153), Ambrogio Lorenzetti (p.164), Pietro Cavallini (p.166, no portrait), Simone Martini (p.169), Taddeo Gaddi (p.175), Andrea Orcagna (p.181), Tommaso, called Giottino (p.188), Giovanni dal Ponte (p.193, no portrait), Agnolo Gaddi (p.195), Il Berna Sanese (p.200, no portrait), Duccio (p.203, no portrait), Antonio Veneziano (p.205), Jacopo del Casentino (p.209), Spinello Aretino (p.212), Gherardo Starnina (p.219), Lippo (di Dalmasio) (p.222), Lorenzo Monaco (p.225), Taddeo Bartolo (p.232, no portrait), Lorenzo di Bicci (p.235).
Second part: Jacopo della Quercia (p.248), Niccolò di Piero Lamberti (p.253, called Niccolò Aretino, i.e. Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli of Arezzo, by Vasari), Dello Delli (p.256), Nanni D'Antonio (p.259), Luca della Robbia (p.261), Paolo Uccello (p.268), Lorenzo Ghiberti (p.274), Masolino da Panicale (p.287), Parri Spinelli (p.289), Masaccio (p.295), Filippo Brunelleschi (p.301), Donatello (p. 327, called Donato), Michellozzo Michellozzi (p.338), Antonio (di Pietro Averlino) Filarete (p.346), Giuliano da Maiano (p.350), Piero della Francesca (p.353), Fra Angelico (Giovanni da Fiesole, p.358), Leon Battista Alberti (p.366), Lazzaro Vasari (p.370), Antonello da Messina (p.374), Alesso Baldovinetti (p.379), Bartolomeo Bellano (p.382, here called Vellano da Padova), Fra Filippo Lippi (p.385), Paolo Romano (p.391), Andrea del Castagno (p.364), Gentile da Fabriano (p.400), Pesello (p.404), Benozzo Gozzoli (p.406), Francesco di Giorgio (p.409), Antonio Rossellino (p.412), Desiderio di Settignano (p.416), Mino da Fiesole (p.419), Lorenzo Costa (p.423), Ercole de' Roberti (p.426), Giovanni Bellini (p.429), Cosimo Rosselli (p.437), Francesco d'Angelo Cecca (p.440, called Il Cecca), Pietro di Antonio Dei (p.448, here called Bartolomeo Abbate di S. Clemente), Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora (p.453), Domenico Ghirlandaio (p.455), Antonio Pollaiuolo (p.465), Sandro Botticelli (p.470), Benedetto da Maiano (p.475), Andrea del Verrocchio (p.480), Andrea Mantegna (p.487), Filippino Lippi (p.492, here called Filippo), Bernardino Pintoricchio (p.497), Francesco Francia (p.502), Pietro Perugino (p.507), Vittore Scarpaccia (p.517), Luca Signorelli (p.526).
Volume with woodcut title-page, illustrations, ornamental initials and other decorations, in vellum binding
- Production date
- 1568
- Dimensions
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Height: 231 millimetres (approx. page size)
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Width: 160 millimetres (approx. page size)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The volume is stamped on the spine: 'Vasari Vite de Pittori Tom: 1.'; the first (blank) page is inscribed in brownish ink '48th - 3 vol.', and there are a small number of other marks in brown ink in the text. The title-page and following six pages have suffered an area of loss near the spine of the book, probably from woodworm, and have been infilled and the missing areas of image and text redrawn in brown ink.
For the third part (in two volumes), see pressmarks 159.b.6,7. The volumes previously belonged to a Thomas Brand, whose bookplate (Franks 3543) is inside the front cover of each.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori (1568)
- Acquisition date
- 1938
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1938,1108.9.1
