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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1

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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