Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
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- | The ''Vite'' started a wave of artist biographies. Other, mainly 17th century biographers often were called the Vasari of their country. [[Karel Van Mander]] in the [[Netherlands]] was probably the first Vasarian author with his ''Het Schilderboeck'' (''The Painters' Book'') from 1604, the first comprehensive list of biographies of painters from the [[Low Countries]]. [[Joachim von Sandrart]] (1606-1688), author of ''Deutsche Akademie'', was known as the "German Vasari". In England, [[William Aglionby|Aglionby]]'s ''Painting Illustrated'' from 1685 was largely based on Vasari as well. | + | The ''Vite'' started a wave of artist biographies. Other, mainly 17th century biographers often were called the Vasari of their country. [[Karel Van Mander]] in the [[Netherlands]] was probably the first Vasarian author with his ''[[Het Schilderboeck]]'' (''The Painters' Book'') from 1604, the first comprehensive list of biographies of [[painters from the Low Countries]]. [[Joachim von Sandrart]] (1606-1688), author of ''Deutsche Akademie'', was known as the "German Vasari". In England, [[William Aglionby|Aglionby]]'s ''Painting Illustrated'' from 1685 was largely based on Vasari as well. |
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The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, 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.
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Influence
Vasari's Vite is the most influential single text for the history of Renaissance art" and "the most important work of Renaissance biography of artists". (Gombrich) 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.
The Vite have been translated wholly or partially into many languages, including English, Dutch, German, Spanish and French.
Flood of artist biographies
The Vite started a wave of artist biographies. Other, mainly 17th century biographers often were called the Vasari of their country. Karel Van Mander in the Netherlands was probably the first Vasarian author with his Het Schilderboeck (The Painters' Book) from 1604, the first comprehensive list of biographies of painters from the Low Countries. Joachim von Sandrart (1606-1688), author of Deutsche Akademie, was known as the "German Vasari". In England, Aglionby's Painting Illustrated from 1685 was largely based on Vasari as well.
View of the Renaissance
The Vite is also important as the basis for discussions on the development of style. It influenced the view art historians had of the Early Renaissance for a long time, placing too much emphasis on the achievements of Florentian and Roman artists while ignoring those of the rest of Italy and certainly the artists from the rest of Europe.
Source of information
Finally, it has also been for centuries the most important source for info on Early Renaissance Italian (and especially Tuscan) painters and the attribution of their paintings. In 1899, an author like John Addington Symonds used the Vite as one of his basic sources for the description of artists in his 7 books on Renaissance in Italy, and nowadays it is still, despite its obvious biases and shortcomings, the basis for the biography of many artists like Leonardo da Vinci.
Contents
The Vite contains the biographies of many important Italian artists, and is also adopted as a sort of classical reference guide for their names, which are sometimes used in different ways. The following list respects the order of the book, as divided into its three parts. The book starts with a dedication to Cosimo de' Medici and a preface, and then starts with technical and background texts about architecture, sculpture, and painting. A second preface follows, introducing the actual "Vite" in parts 2 to 5. What follows is the complete list from the second (1568) edition. In a few cases, different very short biographies were given in one section.
Part 2
- Cimabue
- Arnolfo di Lapo, with Bonnano
- Nicola Pisano
- Giovanni Pisano
- Andrea Tafi
- Gaddo Gaddi
- Margaritone
- Giotto, with Puccio Capanna
- Agostino and Agnolo
- Stefano and Ugolino
- Pietro Lorenzetti (Pietro Laurati)
- Andrea Pisano
- Buonamico Buffalmacco
- Ambrogio Lorenzetti (Ambruogio Laurati)
- Pietro Cavallini
- Simone Martini with Lippo Memmi
- Taddeo Gaddi
- Andrea Orcagna (Andrea di Cione)
- Tomasso Fiorentino
- Giovanni da Ponte
- Agnolo Gaddi
- Berna Sanese (Barna da Siena)
- Duccio
- Antonio Viniziano (Antonio Veneziano)
- Jacopo di Casentino
- Spinello Aretino
- Gherardo Starnina
- Lippo
- Lorenzo Monaco
- Taddeo Bartoli
- Lorenzo di Bicci
Part 3
- Jacopo della Quercia
- Niccolo Aretino (Niccolò di Piero Lamberti)
- Dello (Dello di Niccolò Delli)
- Nanni di Banco
- Luca della Robbia
- Paolo Uccello
- Lorenzo Ghiberti
- Masolino da Panicale
- Parri Spinelli
- Masaccio
- Filippo Brunelleschi
- Donatello
- Michelozzo Michelozzi
- Antonio Filarete and Simone (Simone Ghini)
- Giuliano da Maiano
- Piero della Francesca
- Fra Angelico
- Leon Battista Alberti
- Lazaro Vasari
- Antonello da Messina
- Alessio Baldovinetti
- Vellano da Padova (Bartolomeo Bellano)
- Fra Filippo Lippi
- Paolo Romano, Mino del Reame, Chimenti Camicia, and Baccio Pontelli
- Andrea del Castagno
- Domenico Veneziano
- Gentile da Fabriano
- Vittore Pisanello
- Pesello and Francesco Pesellino
- Benozzo Gozzoli
- Francesco di Giorgio and Vecchietta (Lorenzo di Pietro)
- Galasso Ferrarese
- Antonio Rossellino
- Bernardo Rossellino
- Desiderio da Settignano
- Mino da Fiesole
- Lorenzo Costa
- Ercole Ferrarese
- Jacopo Bellini
- Giovanni Bellini
- Gentile Bellini
- Cosimo Rosselli
- Il Cecca (Francesco d’Angelo)
- Don Bartolomeo Abbate di S. Clemente (Bartolomeo della Gatta)
- Gherardo Silvani
- Domenico Ghirlandaio
- Antonio Pollaiuolo
- Piero Pollaiuolo
- Sandro Botticelli
- Benedetto da Maiano
- Andrea del Verrocchio
- Andrea Mantegna
- Filippino Lippi
- Bernardino Pinturicchio
- Francesco Francia
- Pietro Perugino
- Vittore Scarpaccia
- Iacopo detto l'Indaco (Jacopo Torni)
- Luca Signorelli
- Sofonisba Anguissola
Part 4
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Giorgione da Castelfranco
- Antonio da Correggio
- Piero di Cosimo
- Donato Bramante (Bramante da Urbino)
- Fra Bartolomeo Di San Marco
- Mariotto Albertinelli
- Raffaellino del Garbo
- Pietro Torrigiano (Torrigiano)
- Giuliano da Sangallo
- Antonio da Sangallo
- Raphael
- Guillaume de Marcillat
- Simone del Pollaiolo (il Cronaca)
- Davide Ghirlandaio and Benedetto Ghirlandaio
- Domenico Puligo
- Andrea da Fiesole
- Vincenzo da San Gimignano and Timoteo da Urbino
- Andrea Sansovino (Andrea dal Monte Sansovino)
- Benedetto da Rovezzano
- Baccio da Montelupo and Raffaello da Montelupo (father and son)
- Lorenzo di Credi
- Boccaccio Boccaccino (Boccaccino Cremonese)
- Lorenzetto
- Baldassare Peruzzi
- Pellegrino da Modena (Pellegrino Aretusi)
- Giovan Francesco, also known as il Fattore
- Andrea del Sarto
- Francesco Granacci
- Baccio D'Agnolo
- Properzia de’ Rossi
- Alfonso Lombardi
- Michele Agnolo (Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli)
- Girolamo Santacroce
- Dosso Dossi and Battista Dossi (Dossi brothers)
- Giovanni Antonio Licino
- Rosso Fiorentino
- Giovanni Antonio Sogliani
- Girolamo da Treviso (Girolamo Da Trevigi)
- Polidoro da Caravaggio and Maturino da Firenze(Maturino Fiorentino)
- Bartolommeo Ramenghi (Bartolomeo Da Bagnacavallo)
- Marco Calabrese
- Morto Da Feltro
- Franciabigio
- Francesco Mazzola
- Jacopo Palma (Il Palma)
- Lorenzo Lotto
- Fra Gocondo
- Francesco Granacci
- Baccio d'Agnolo
- Valerio Vicentino (Valerio Belli), Giovanni da Castel Bolognese (Giovanni Bernardi) and Matteo dal Nasaro Veronese
Part 5
- Marcantonio Bolognese
- Antonio da Sangallo
- Giulio Romano
- Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Viniziano)
- Perino Del Vaga
- Giovann'Antonio Lappoli
- Niccolò Soggi
- Niccolò detto il Tribolo
- Pierino da Vinci
- Domenico Beccafumi
- Baccio Bandinelli
- Giuliano Bugiardini
- Cristofano Gherardi
- Jacopo da Pontormo
- Simone Mosca
- Girolamo Genga, Bartolommeo Genga and Giovanbatista San Marino (Giovanni Battista Belluzzi)
- Michele Sanmicheli
- Giovannantonio detto il Soddoma da Verzelli
- Bastiano detto Aristotile da San Gallo
- Benedetto Garofalo and Girolamo da Carpi
- Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, Davide Ghirlandaio and Benedetto Ghirlandaio
- Giovanni da Udine
- Battista Franco
- Francesco Rustichi
- Fra' Giovann'Agnolo Montorsoli
- Francesco detto de' Salviati
- Daniello Ricciarelli da Volterra
- Taddeo Zucchero
Part 6
- Michelangelo Buonarroti (Michelangelo)
- Francesco Primaticcio
- Tiziano da Cadore (Titian)
- Jacopo Sansovino
- Lione Aretino (Leone Leoni)
- Giulio Clovio, manuscript illuminator
- Bronzino
- Giorgio Vasari