Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi Vasari, Giorgio 1511-1574 creator De Vere, Gaston du C. 1882?-1955 text utu 2008 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10)" by Giorgio Vasari is a series of artist biographies published in 1550, with a second edition in 1568. This groundbreaking work chronicles the lives of Italian Renaissance painters, sculptors, and architects, establishing the genre of art history writing. Vasari combines technical insights with colorful anecdotes and gossip about artists from Giotto to his own contemporaries. Though criticized for favoring Florentine artists and containing factual inaccuracies, it remains the most influential and widely read art history text of its era. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Most_Excellent_Painters,_Sculptors,_and_Architects Release date is 2008-05-05 Produced by Mark C. Orton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Original publication data not identified Artists -- Italy -- Biography Art, Italian N Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25326 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25326 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133559.0 25326