Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1897)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GIOVANNI CIMABUE, FLORENTINE PAINTER [Born 1240; died eirea 1302.] THE overwhelming flood of evils by which nnhappy Italy had been submerged and devastated had not only destroyed whatever could properly be called buildings, but, a still more deplorable consequence, had totally exterminated the artists themselves, when, by the will of God, in the year 1240, Giovanni Cimabue, of the noble family of that name,1 was born, in the city of Florence, to give the first light to the art of painting. This youth, as he grew up, being considered by his father and others to give proof of an acute judgment and a clear understanding, was sent to Santa Maria Novella to study letters under a relation, who was then master in grammar to the novices of that convent. But Cimabue, instead of devoting himself to letters, con- In the annotations to these volumes all references to Milancsi refer to the Florentine edition of Vasari, 1878-1882, by the late Gaetann Milanesi. Notes not numbered, but designated by star, dagger, and double dagger, refer to textual corrections. Differences of one year in dates given are frequently caused by the use oa the part of different authorities of so-called "old style" and " new style " in chronology. All of the headings to the lives have been made conformable with those of Milanesi. 1 Cimabue's name was Cenni di Pepe, and not Gualtieri as stated by Baldinncci. The lives of Vasari begin practically with the middle of the thirteenth century, the epoch of Dante, of political strife, and civil war. In this period of political fermentation the arts throve; already great churches which belonged not to the old, but to the new, order of things had arisen; the Duomo of Pisa, the cathedrals of Lucca and Parma, San Giovanni of Florence, and Bant' Ambrogio of Milan, and the ...

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Giorgio Vasari, geboren 1511 in Arezzo in der Toskana, war ein Universalgenie: Maler, Architekt (u. a. als Baumeister der Uffizien), Berater der Medici, Kunstsammler und Historiker. Sein Hauptwerk sind die Leben hervorragender Künstler.Vasari starb 1574 in Florenz.

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