Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects - All 10 Volumes. Giorgio Vasari

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       LIFE OF LIPPO, PAINTER OF FLORENCE

       DON LORENZO MONACO

       LIFE OF DON LORENZO MONACO, OF THE ANGELI IN FLORENCE, PAINTER

       TADDEO BARTOLI

       LIFE OF TADDEO BARTOLI, PAINTER OF SIENA

       LORENZO DI BICCI

       LIFE OF LORENZO DI BICCI, PAINTER OF FLORENCE

       THE SECOND PART OF THE LIVES OF THE SCULPTORS, PAINTERS, AND ARCHITECTS, WHO HAVE LIVED FROM CIMABUE TO OUR OWN DAY. WRITTEN BY MESSER GIORGIO VASARI, PAINTER AND ARCHITECT OF AREZZO

       PREFACE TO THE SECOND PART

       JACOPO DELLA QUERCIA, LIFE OF JACOPO DELLA QUERCIA [JACOPO DELLA FONTE]

       LIFE OF JACOPO DELLA QUERCIA [JACOPO DELLA FONTE] SCULPTOR OF SIENA

       NICCOLÒ ARETINO

       LIFE OF NICCOLÒ ARETINO [NICCOLÒ D'AREZZO OR NICCOLÒ DI PIERO LAMBERTI], SCULPTOR

       DELLO

       LIFE OF DELLO, PAINTER OF FLORENCE

       NANNI D'ANTONIO DI BANCO

       LIFE OF NANNI D'ANTONIO DI BANCO, SCULPTOR OF FLORENCE

       LUCA DELLA ROBBIA

       LIFE OF LUCA DELLA ROBBIA, SCULPTOR OF FLORENCE

       PAOLO UCCELLO

       LIFE OF PAOLO UCCELLO, PAINTER OF FLORENCE

       LORENZO GHIBERTI

       LIFE OF LORENZO GHIBERTI [LORENZO DI CIONE GHIBERTI OR LORENZO DI BARTOLUCCIO GHIBERTI],PAINTER OF FLORENCE

       MASOLINO DA PANICALE

       LIFE OF MASOLINO DA PANICALE, PAINTER

       PARRI SPINELLI

       LIFE OF PARRI SPINELLI, PAINTER OF AREZZO

       MASACCIO

       LIFE OF MASACCIO, PAINTER OF SAN GIOVANNI IN VALDARNO

       FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI

       LIFE OF FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI [FILIPPO DI SER BRUNELLESCO], SCULPTOR AND ARCHITECT

       DONATO

       LIFE OF DONATO [DONATELLO], SCULPTOR OF FLORENCE

       MICHELOZZO MICHELOZZI

       LIFE OF MICHELOZZO MICHELOZZI, SCULPTOR AND ARCHITECT OF FLORENCE

       FOOTNOTES

      BERNA

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       MADONNA AND CHILD MADONNA AND CHILD (After the painting by Berna Sanese [da Siena]. Asciano: Church of S. Francesco) Burton View larger image

      LIFE OF BERNA

      PAINTER OF SIENA

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      If those who labour to become excellent in some art did not very often have the thread of life cut by death in their best years, I have no doubt that many intellects would arrive at that rank which is most desired both by them and by the world. But the short life of men and the bitterness of various accidents, which threaten them from all sides, snatch them from us sometimes prematurely, as could be seen in poor young Berna of Siena, who, although he died young, nevertheless left so many works that he appears to have lived very long; and those that he left were made in such a way, that it may well be believed from this showing that he would have become excellent and rare if he had not died so soon. In two chapels of S. Agostino in Siena there are seen some little pictures with figures in fresco, by his hand; and in the church, on a wall now pulled down in order to make chapels there, was a scene of a youth led to execution, as well made as it could possibly be imagined, there being seen expressed in it the pallor and fear of death, in so lifelike a manner that he deserved therefore the highest praise. Beside the said youth was a friar painted in a very fine attitude, and, in short, everything in that work is so vividly wrought that it appears, indeed, that in this work Berna imagined this event as most horrible, as it must be, and full of most bitter and cruel terror, seeing that he portrayed it so well with the brush that the same scene appearing in reality would not stir greater emotion.

      In the city of Cortona, also, besides many other works scattered in many places in that city, he painted the greater part of the vaulting and of the walls of the Church of S. Margherita, where to-day is the seat of the Frati Zoccolanti. From Cortona he went to Arezzo in the year 1369, exactly when the Tarlati, formerly Lords of Pietramala, had caused Moccio, a sculptor and architect of Siena, to finish the Convent and the body of the Church of S. Agostino in that city, in the lesser aisles of which many citizens had caused chapels and tombs to be made for their families; and there, in the Chapel of S. Jacopo, Berna painted in fresco some little scenes of


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